{"id":220960,"date":"2026-04-06T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:36:33","slug":"miami-dade-gets-more-than-5-2-million-in-federal-funding-to-improve-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220960\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade gets more than $5.2 million in federal funding to improve security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office gets federal funding  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla. \u2014 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rep. Mario Diaz Balart celebrated receiving more than $5.2 million in federal funding for law enforcement in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During a ceremony, Diaz Balart handed two big U.S. Treasury checks at the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office headquarters on Monday in Doral. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis department is always at the forefront of technology,\u201d Diaz-Balart said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One check was for $4.2 million in equipment, and the other was for $1.05 million for a mobile command center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have some really big things coming to Miami-Dade,\u201d Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FIFA World Cup will have five matches in June and four in July in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related links<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More FIFA stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Trent Kelly\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/gmg\/379f21d1-d3cb-436b-9d60-fd7b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Trent Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Trent Kelly is an award-winning multimedia journalist who joined the Local 10 News team in June 2018. Trent is no stranger to Florida. Born in Tampa, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he graduated with honors from the UF College of Journalism and Communications.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">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:\u00a0April 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office gets federal funding DORAL, Fla. \u2014 Rep. Mario Diaz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-220960","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\/220960","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=220960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}