{"id":243645,"date":"2026-04-23T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243645\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:04:38","slug":"miami-police-accuse-5-in-undercover-child-sex-trafficking-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243645\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami police accuse 5 in undercover child sex trafficking sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 23, 2026 at 2:44 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\/R6BWMZ4E3BEXZB5N2P4L3T5G4U.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>From left to right: Josue Castanon, Edgardo Donaire, Roberto Guido Rojas, Miles Simyon, Marvin Torres (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami police said they arrested five men from Broward and Miami-Dade counties on Wednesday night in an undercover child sex trafficking sting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they conducted the sting at an undisclosed hotel with the help of the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office Human Trafficking Task Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to arrest reports, detectives posted an online advertisement posing as the mother of two girls, aged 13 and 15, and told those responding that they \u201cwere available for sexual services in exchange for money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they arranged meetings with the men to pay for sex with one or both of the girls and arrested them after they entered the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they arrested the following suspects on child sex trafficking and computer crimes charges:<\/p>\n<p>Josue Donis Castanon, 20, of Fort LauderdaleEdgardo Arturo Donaire, 49, of MiramarRoberto Antonio Guido Rojas, 38, of MiamiMiles Simyon, 22, of SweetwaterMarvin Geovanny Torres, 43, of southwest Miami-Dade<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators specifically noted that Torres brought along more than a dozen condoms, several lubricants and lotions as well as multiple sexual objects, including \u201cbondage\u201d items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe kept repeating, in Spanish, \u2018I knew it,\u2019 \u2018I knew,\u2019 \u2018I knew that it was this,\u2019\u201d a detective wrote in Torres\u2019 arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Castanon, a Guatemalan national; Donaire and Torres, both Honduran nationals; Guido Rojas, a Nicaraguan national; and Simyon, a Botswanan national, were all being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Castanon and Guido Rojas additionally have immigration holds.<\/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 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFrom left to right: Josue Castanon, Edgardo Donaire, Roberto Guido Rojas, Miles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-243645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243645","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=243645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}