{"id":241698,"date":"2026-04-22T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241698\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:33:10","slug":"swat-responds-after-driver-forced-to-take-men-to-miami-beach-at-gunpoint-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241698\/","title":{"rendered":"SWAT responds after driver forced to take men to Miami Beach at gunpoint, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SWAT team responded to a Miami Beach apartment building Tuesday night after a driver said he was forced at gunpoint to take two men to that location. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrived at a building called SoBe Ocean Drive Suites, off of Ocean Drive and 14th Street, across from the Betsy Hotel at around 9:14 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The rideshare driver told authorities that he had picked up the two men outside of the city and was forced to take them to the building.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the two men and were able to take one into custody. <\/p>\n<p>The second man &#8220;barricaded himself inside a location in the 1400 block of Ocean Drive,&#8221; before he was safely taken into custody at around 1:08 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the men in custody were not immediately revealed. It was also not known what charges they could face.  <\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SWAT team responded to a Miami Beach apartment building Tuesday night after a driver said he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1642,125,124],"class_list":["post-241698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241698","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=241698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}