{"id":232308,"date":"2026-04-15T05:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:12:25","slug":"north-miami-beach-man-stabs-roommate-for-not-putting-groceries-in-fridge-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232308\/","title":{"rendered":"North Miami Beach man stabs roommate for not putting groceries in fridge, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2IIEIDRTNFCE5LYRZJYEWBVNJ4.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Vincent Dukes (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 North Miami Beach police arrested a 59-year-old man on Monday after they said he stabbed his roommate over his failure to put groceries in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/14\/acusan-a-hombre-de-north-miami-beach-de-apunalar-a-su-companero-de-cuarto-por-no-guardar-compras-en-el-refrigerador-segun-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/14\/acusan-a-hombre-de-north-miami-beach-de-apunalar-a-su-companero-de-cuarto-por-no-guardar-compras-en-el-refrigerador-segun-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, investigators responded to an apartment in the 1800 block of Northeast 154th Street just before 6:30 p.m. and found the bloodied victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they also saw Vincent Lenard Dukes, the victim\u2019s roommate of six months, \u201cstanding inside with blood on his white T-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Dukes, angry over the groceries being left out, stabbed his roommate in the torso with a pair of scissors and then stabbed him with a knife in the left leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Dukes admitted to getting into the argument. They said Dukes claimed that he stabbed his roommate after being kicked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrested Dukes on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday afternoon, Dukes was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" 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\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandVincent Dukes (MDCR) NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 North Miami Beach police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-232308","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\/232308","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=232308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}