{"id":215016,"date":"2026-04-01T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:42:09","slug":"trusted-member-of-community-arrested-for-lewd-conduct-with-teen-miami-dade-sheriff-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trusted member of community\u2019 arrested for lewd conduct with teen, Miami-Dade Sheriff says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office officials described as a &#8220;trusted member of the community&#8221; has been arrested for alleged lewd conduct on a teen girl, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaya Lunger, 54, was arrested on March 25 on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child, Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lunger is a community activist and works with a local non-profit, records showed.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, Lunger had entered the 15-year-old girl&#8217;s room and closed the door back on March 19.<\/p>\n<p>He told her to &#8220;put away her sexy things,&#8221; referring to her &#8220;breast area,&#8221; then hugged her and kissed her multiple times, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Lunger had also &#8220;expressed a desire for the victim to turn eighteen (18) years old on multiple interactions with the victim,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office Special Victims Bureau detectives were made aware of the incident on March 24 and interviewed the teen before arresting Lunger, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said Lunger, also known as &#8220;Yona,&#8221; is considered a trusted member of the community, and has access to minors.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are urging anyone who may have been victimized by Lunger to come forward and contact the Special Victims Bureau at 305-715-3300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office officials described as a &#8220;trusted member of the community&#8221; has been arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-215016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215016","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=215016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}