{"id":262670,"date":"2026-05-07T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:53:22","slug":"video-shows-alleged-repeat-arsonist-start-fire-in-north-miami-beach-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262670\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows alleged repeat arsonist start fire in North Miami Beach, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New surveillance footage shows a man who police say is behind multiple arson incidents allegedly set a fire while walking a dog in North Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Michael Baum, 52, was arrested last month on multiple counts of second-degree arson and criminal mischief, Miami-Dade jail records showed.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest reports, police had been investigating multiple arson incidents outside a home along Northeast 22nd Avenue dating back to March of 2025 and including an incident in November.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance footage shows a suspect walking a dog before stopping and setting some bushes on fire outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Only minor damage was reported.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent incident happened April 13 of this year, when the victim spotted a man start to light an object on fire along with a possible cigar or cigarette, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded and found Baum nearby with a cigar, a lighter, and the dog, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New surveillance footage shows a man who police say is behind multiple arson incidents allegedly set a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,123,125,124,32371],"class_list":["post-262670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-north-miami-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262670","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=262670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}