{"id":212027,"date":"2026-03-30T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212027\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:07:08","slug":"men-defraud-edm-fans-outside-factory-town-in-hialeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212027\/","title":{"rendered":"Men defraud EDM fans outside Factory Town in Hialeah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0March 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM<\/p>\n

lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand\"\"MIAMI-DADE SUSPECTS ARRESTED: Police officers arrested Jalaal Spearman, left, and David Stiger, right, early Monday morning in Hialeah, records showed. <\/p>\n

HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A man from North Carolina and a man from California stand accused of trying to defraud Electronic Dance Music fans outside of Factory Town<\/a> in Hialeah, according to police reports. <\/p>\n

Police officers arrested Jalaal Spearman, of North Carolina\u2019s city of Goldsboro, and David Stiger, of Los Angeles\u2019s Sylmar neighborhood, at 3:15 a.m. on Monday at 4800 NW 37 Ave., records showed. <\/p>\n

Stiger, 39, and Spearman, 48, were \u201capproaching people who were walking\u201d outside Factory Town and attempting to sell the EDM fans $225 wristbands that were fraudulent, according to police. <\/p>\n

Police officers seized cash and fake wristbands from both Stiger and Spearpman, according to the police arrest reports in the cases. <\/p>\n

Corrections booked Stiger shortly before 6 a.m., and Spearman shortly after 6 a.m. at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to Miami-Dade inmate records. <\/p>\n

Spearman and Stiger each faced charges of organized scheme to defraud; creating, altering, or possessing fraudulent admission tickets to sports, concerts, or amusement facilities with intent to defraud; and disorderly conduct. <\/p>\n

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

\"AndreaAndrea Torres<\/p>\n

The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMIAMI-DADE SUSPECTS ARRESTED: Police officers arrested Jalaal Spearman, left, and David Stiger,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-212027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212027","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=212027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}