{"id":251660,"date":"2026-04-29T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:20:08","slug":"miami-beach-man-accused-of-criminal-mischief-faces-judge-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251660\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach man accused of criminal mischief faces judge &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A man who Miami Beach Police said allegedly starts fires felt the heat in court during his appearance. <\/p>\n<p>Forty-five-year-old Franklin Lee appeared in bond court, a day <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/miami-beach-police-accuse-alleged-arsonist-of-criminal-mischief-cocaine-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">after being arrested. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He faces three counts of criminal mischief and one count for possession of cocaine. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, Lee was seen on camera <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/authorities-work-to-identify-suspected-arsonist-after-trash-can-goes-up-in-flames-in-miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">allegedly igniting several trash cans in the area on fire.<\/a> An arson investigation is underway into this incident. <\/p>\n<p>He is currently behind bars, being held on a $10,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A man who Miami Beach Police said allegedly starts fires felt the heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-251660","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\/251660","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=251660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}