{"id":199074,"date":"2026-03-20T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:13:08","slug":"police-id-man-who-they-say-was-caught-on-video-getting-out-of-stolen-dump-truck-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199074\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID man who they say was caught on video getting out of stolen dump truck \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have identified the man arrested for allegedly stealing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/suspect-flees-on-foot-after-stealing-dump-truck-in-miami-police-say\/3783272\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">dump truck in Miami and fleeing on foot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carlton Moss, 42, was arrested on Thursday, after Miami Police officials said the owner of the dump truck woke up and realized the vehicle was gone. <\/p>\n<p>An employee said a construction crew rented the truck and left it at their worksite near Miami shores Wednesday. The owner was able to track it down thanks to a GPS tracker and found it in the area of Northwest 17th Avenue and Northwest 66th Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The owner and officers arrived and confronted Moss, who was sleeping inside, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the man getting out of a dump truck, casually walking off, then running off, as an officer tries to track him down.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched the area for the suspect, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He kept on running through backyards, he kept on hiding, he would sit down for a little bit and then start running again,&#8221; said Mike Vega of Miami Police. &#8220;Having a helicopter out there is crucial in these investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>K-9s found the suspect hiding in the backyard of a house. He was hospitalized, being treated for a dog bite, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Moss is charged with third-degree grand theft and resisting an officer without violence to his person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the man arrested for allegedly stealing a dump truck in Miami and fleeing on foot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199074","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\/199074","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=199074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}