{"id":182768,"date":"2026-03-08T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:08:11","slug":"video-shows-arrest-of-fedex-truck-burglar-stymied-by-traffic-on-macarthur-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182768\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows arrest of FedEx truck burglar stymied by traffic on MacArthur, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Newly-released video shows the arrest of a suspect who Miami Beach police said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/05\/fedex-truck-burglar-gets-stuck-in-traffic-on-macarthur-causeway-while-trying-to-outrun-cops-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/05\/fedex-truck-burglar-gets-stuck-in-traffic-on-macarthur-causeway-while-trying-to-outrun-cops-police\/\">stole several packages<\/a> from a FedEx truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But police said Shajuan Jones, 26, of Memphis, Tennessee, didn\u2019t make it to the mainland as he tried to get away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They arrested him after they said he suffered a fate familiar to many a South Florida driver: He got stuck in traffic on the MacArthur Causeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the theft happened just after noon on Wednesday near 1 Collins Ave. on South Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shows both the initial theft and the aftermath, with officers ordering Jones to the ground at gunpoint on the causeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThough this was a misdemeanor crime initially, it turned out to be a very serious and good drug bust,\u201d Officer Christopher Bess, a spokesperson for the Miami Beach Police Department, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bess said Jones not only threw a gun out of the window of his getaway car, but officers found drugs, \u201cfrom Oxycontins to 150 grams of marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is facing multiple felony charges, including burglary of an unoccupied conveyance while armed, fleeing or eluding police and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe vehicle was recovered, the drugs and the firearm were seized for evidence and luckily, a very bad guy was taken off the streets that day,\u201d Bess said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday evening, Jones remained behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bond of more than $17,000.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Newly-released video shows the arrest of a suspect who Miami Beach police said stole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-182768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182768","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=182768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}