{"id":262237,"date":"2026-05-07T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:58:13","slug":"miami-beach-police-honor-fallen-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262237\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach police honor fallen officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 The Miami Beach Police Department held a somber ceremony on Thursday, honoring officers who lost their lives while in the line of duty. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under a gray South Florida sky, badges gleamed and flags were lowered while many of the hearts in attendance carried the kind of wight no police uniform can protect against. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One of the men honored was 33-year-old Sgt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/29\/miami-beach-police-officer-laid-to-rest-following-fatal-motorcycle-crash-on-i-75\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/29\/miami-beach-police-officer-laid-to-rest-following-fatal-motorcycle-crash-on-i-75\/\">David Cajuso<\/a>, a 10-year veteran of the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florida Highway Patrol said Cajuso lost control of his motorcycle off I-75 near Hialeah while on his way to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was one of 11 officers honored during Thursday\u2019s event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their names were spoken carefully and deliberately as loved ones fought back tears that no words could ever fully comfort. <\/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=\"Jeff  Derderian \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/MSLA5GVTO5AXZLY4CC5BTN7M.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jeff Derderian <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jeff Derderian is an Emmy Award-winning reporter with more than two decades of experience uncovering the truth and holding the powerful accountable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The Miami Beach Police Department held a somber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-262237","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\/262237","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=262237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}