{"id":241736,"date":"2026-04-22T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:12:09","slug":"2-in-custody-after-pulling-gun-on-ride-share-driver-forcing-him-to-drive-them-to-miami-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241736\/","title":{"rendered":"2 in custody after pulling gun on ride-share driver, forcing him to drive them to Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 7:33 AM<\/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\/BVDBSXP7B5H4REGITICZL6V6QA.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Two suspects are in custody after police said they pulled a gun on a ride-share driver and forced him to drive them to Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Beach police, officers responded to the 1400 block of Ocean Drive at about 9:14 p.m. Tuesday where the driver dropped off the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the driver told them that he picked up the suspects outside of the city before being forced at gunpoint to drive them to the location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, one suspect was quickly located and taken into custody, but the other suspect barricaded himself inside a nearby building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was eventually taken into custody at about 1:08 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 7:33 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Two suspects are in custody after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-241736","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\/241736","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=241736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}