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Ryan Mackey <\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM<\/p>\n
CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 A 47-year-old man is accused of attacking a co-worker with a machete during a dispute over a parking space at a Coral Gables construction site, police confirmed. <\/p>\n
According to an arrest report from the Coral Gables Police Department, officers were dispatched Wednesday to a reported battery involving a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n
Upon arrival, police said they found the victim suffering from a red mark on his right shoulder.<\/p>\n
The victim told police he and the suspect, Meldin Omar Lopez, a Honduran national, had been arguing about parking when Lopez struck him on the back with the flat side of a machete, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Two witnesses who were also working at the construction site told officers they saw Lopez hit the victim and that the victim never mentioned having a gun. <\/p>\n
A third worker took the machete away and hid it in a pile of sand until Coral Gables police arrived.<\/p>\n
Police said Lopez was taken into custody and later made a statement following a Miranda warning, though the contents of that confession were redacted from the publicly-released report.<\/p>\n
They said the machete was collected as evidence, and Lopez was booked into jail on one count of aggravated battery with a weapon causing great bodily harm. <\/p>\n
As of Thursday morning, he remains on an immigration hold at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. <\/p>\n
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Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 A 47-year-old man is accused of attacking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-17358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}