{"id":242061,"date":"2026-04-22T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:17:17","slug":"video-shows-moment-miami-police-take-down-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242061\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows moment Miami police take down sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>Newly obtained body camera video shows the moment Miami police took down a wanted man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 Newly obtained body camera video shows the moment Miami police took down a wanted man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the video, the suspect, Eduardo Rivero, is seen ramming a police car and then taking off in a vehicle with children inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened in October of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami police said they noticed a driver in a car they had been searching for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When police tried to pull him over, they noticed a woman and two children inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That\u2019s when they say Rivero placed the car in reverse and intentionally rammed a detective in an unmarked police unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Rivero then put the car in drive and hit two other police vehicles multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But when he couldn\u2019t get the vehicle out of the area, he got out and started running, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said when officers searched his car, they found two guns and a stolen license plate with Velcro on the back in order to quickly attach or remove it from different vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The video also shows the woman, who was in the car with her kids, talking to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Rivero was identified as a sex offender and was already on probation until 2029 after being convicted of sexually battering a victim under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Because of that conviction, he\u2019s not supposed to be within 1,000 feet of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Rivero\u2019s driver\u2019s license had also been expired since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He faces numerous charges, including battery against a law enforcement officer and child abuse.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM Newly obtained body camera video shows the moment Miami police took down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-242061","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\/242061","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=242061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}