{"id":223576,"date":"2026-04-08T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223576\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:28:20","slug":"woman-accused-of-helping-hide-suspect-in-2-attempted-murders-in-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223576\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of helping hide suspect in 2 attempted murders in Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 22-year-old woman faced criminal charges on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County after deputies accused her of helping a 22-year-old man hide after a shooting in the Naranja neighborhood, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brian Laoz was on the run after wounding two victims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/17\/mdso-2-men-arrive-at-hospital-after-being-shot-in-southwest-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/17\/mdso-2-men-arrive-at-hospital-after-being-shot-in-southwest-miami-dade\/\">on Feb. 17<\/a> in the area of Southwest 266th Street and 138th Avenue when Leah Santos picked him up, according to a deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Feb. 23, Santos told Miami-Dade deputies that Laoz was her boyfriend, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe picked up [Laoz] the following morning after the shooting from a residence\u201d and \u201ctraveled to a smoke shop to buy marijuana and rolling papers,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos also told deputies that she went home to the Three Lakes neighborhood to get bandages to help Laoz with his injured foot, they \u201cwent to a restaurant to get food,\u201d and \u201cshe purchased a short-term rental,\u201d according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos said her parents called her to tell her that detectives were looking for her, so she left the Airbnb short-term rental in Kendall, and she drove back home to the Three Lakes neighborhood to meet with a detective, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos \u201cprovided a false statement that she had not seen [Laoz] for a while and that they had previously ended their relationship\u201d and \u201creturned to the Airbnb where [Laoz] was,\u201d according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos later convinced Laoz \u201cto turn himself in\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/20\/miami-dade-gunman-claims-self-defense-detective-reports-video-shows-premeditation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/20\/miami-dade-gunman-claims-self-defense-detective-reports-video-shows-premeditation\/\">on Feb. 19<\/a>, and after he did, they continued to communicate while he was behind bars, according to the report. Detectives reported listening to their jail calls on Feb. 22 and Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Laoz, who had told deputies the Feb. 17 shooting had been in self-defense, allegedly gave Santos tasks during the calls \u2014 including buying firearms parts for him, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies searched Santos\u2019s home on Tuesday in the Three Lakes neighborhood and arrested her there at 5:30 p.m., according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade corrections booked Santos shortly after 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos faced charges of accessory after the fact, tampering with physical evidence, and knowingly providing false information to law enforcement during an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 22-year-old woman faced criminal charges on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County after deputies accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-223576","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\/223576","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=223576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}