{"id":196431,"date":"2026-03-18T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:53:12","slug":"massachusetts-man-stabs-friend-at-miami-beach-bachelor-party-after-argument-over-women-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196431\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts man stabs friend at Miami Beach bachelor party after argument over women, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bachelor party in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami Beach<\/a> turned violent over the weekend after police say a fight over women led to two friends stabbing one another.<\/p>\n<p>Olajuwon Dickerson, 32, of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, appeared in court from his hospital bed on Tuesday after he was arrested for his role in the incident early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/miami-beach-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami Beach police<\/a>, Dickerson and his friend were in the area for a bachelor party and were out celebrating on Ocean Drive.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-olajuwon-dickerson-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-olajuwon-dickerson-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Olajuwon Dickerson<\/p>\n<p>                Miami Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Police said that at some point Dickerson&#8217;s friend became upset that women the two men met at bars were only paying attention to Dickerson.<\/p>\n<p>An altercation began, and Dickerson then ended up stabbing his friend in the stomach, according to police. The friend then told police that he stabbed Dickerson back in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dickerson and his friend were taken to a hospital by Miami Beach Fire Rescue to be treated for injuries. The friend was later released, and Dickerson remained in the hospital and appeared in court from the hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>Once he was medically cleared, Dickerson was brought to jail and is currently being held in custody without bond.<\/p>\n<p>Spring breakers descend upon Miami Beach<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/miami-beach-starts-spring-break-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Beach officials decided to not &#8220;dump&#8221; spring break<\/a> this year, but have instead pursued a healthier approach to the event which draws people to South Florida from across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/spring-break\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Spring break<\/a> crowds have been noticeable in South Florida, from daytime gatherings and busy nightlife.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend was the first busy weekend for spring break this year, and while some security measures were scaled back a bit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/spring-break-miami-beach-south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police presence definitely has not<\/a> been scaled back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make it clear though the city&#8217;s restrictions have lessened, our police department&#8217;s enforcement and visibility will remain the same this year,&#8221; Miami Beach Officer Chris Bess said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been DUI checkpoints, and the city said it would implement a curfew if things get out of control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bachelor party in Miami Beach turned violent over the weekend after police say a fight over women&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1642,5745,125,124,1064,807,41470],"class_list":["post-196431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-beach-police","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida","tag-spring-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196431","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=196431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}