A Miami Gardens woman was arrested after she allegedly set her apartment on fire during an argument with her boyfriend over infidelity, police said.<\/p>\n
Tabitha Rebekah Woodard, 30, was arrested on a first-degree arson charge, Miami-Dade jail records showed.<\/p>\n
The alleged incident happened Wednesday at a home in the 2900 block of Northwest 156th Street.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, a man said he got home from work and noticed smoke coming from tenant’s efficiency, so he approached and found Woodard standing by the door and her mother sitting on a couch inside.<\/p>\n
The man said he shouted at the mother to get out due to the fire and heavy smoke then called for emergency services as Woodard fled, the report said.<\/p>\n
Once the fire was extinguished a fire investigator determined it was arson, the report said.<\/p>\n
Police spoke with Woodard’s boyfriend of 13 years who said they had gotten into an argument the night before “due to her infidelity,” the report said.<\/p>\n
He said the argument continued that morning and at one point he walked to his car and found his tires slashed so he left to buy new tires.<\/p>\n
When he returned he found the home burning, the report said.<\/p>\n
Woodard’s mother said she found Woodard in a bedroom standing near clothes that had been set on fire, the report said.<\/p>\n
The mother said Woodard tried to put it out by tossing some water on it but then walked out of the home, the report said.<\/p>\n
Woodard later returned to the home and was arrested and booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami Gardens woman was arrested after she allegedly set her apartment on fire during an argument with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2431,125,124],"class_list":["post-197905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197905","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=197905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}