{"id":230295,"date":"2026-04-13T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:15:08","slug":"woman-busted-for-brazen-baby-formula-thefts-in-hialeah-north-miami-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230295\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman busted for brazen baby formula thefts in Hialeah, North Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>Woman behind brazen baby formula thefts busted, now behind bars <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 A South Florida woman is facing charges stemming from several thefts of baby formula. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hialeah police arrested Tanaijah Leanna Mason, 18, of West Park, for crimes that occurred back in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, Mason was with two other women on March 5 inside the Sedanos supermarket located at 3950 W 12th Ave. when they took approximately $1,500-worth of baby formula without paying. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said on the same day, Mason tried stealing another $1,500-worth of formula from a Publix in Hialeah, but when the women were stopped, they took off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Four days later, police in North Miami Beach said a group of four women pulled off a similar crime at a Target located at 14705 Biscayne Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Friday, police said Mason was discovered to already be in custody \u201cfor arrests matching this exact same MO throughout Miami-Dade County\u201d and that \u201csimilar cases involving the same group of females has also been reported in Broward County,\u201d according to an arrest form. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An additional case out of Miramar is under investigation, but police cannot confirm if the crimes were committed by the same group. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Rosh Lowe\" 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\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM Woman behind brazen baby formula thefts busted, now behind bars HIALEAH, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-230295","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\/230295","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=230295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}