A Miami man is facing charges after he apparently accidentally shot himself with a stolen gun and tried to claim someone else had shot him, officials said.<\/p>\n
Joel Morales-Saez, 46, was arrested Wednesday on charges including armed burglary, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, dealing in stolen property, tampering with physical evidence while armed and making a false report to law enforcement, Miami-Dade jail records showed.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies had responded to as address on Northwest 81st Street and made contact with Morales-Saez, who said an unknown masked person shot him in the foot as he was washing dishes in his trailer.<\/p>\n
Investigators found a blood trail going to a nearby trailer and obtained surveillance video that showed Morales-Saez opening the door and throwing a bag inside before returning to his trailer, the report said.<\/p>\n
The homeowner of the other trailer said the bag, which contained a firearm, didn’t belong to her.<\/p>\n
A records check showed the gun had previously been reported stolen, the report said.<\/p>\n
Morales-Saez claimed he’d left his trailer to seek help before he returned to call police.<\/p>\n
A records check showed he has five previous felony convictions for grand theft, tampering with evidence and possession of a firearm or weapon by a convicted felon, the report said.<\/p>\n
Morales-Saez was booked into jail and appeared before a judge on Thursday, where a prosecutor spoke about the incident.<\/p>\n
“So it looks like he may have accidentally shot himself,” the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The judge ordered Morales-Saez held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami man is facing charges after he apparently accidentally shot himself with a stolen gun and tried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-262248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262248","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=262248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}