{"id":266981,"date":"2026-05-11T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266981\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:05:11","slug":"man-accused-of-stealing-luggage-at-miami-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266981\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of stealing luggage at Miami International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM<\/p>\n<p>Felon convicted of robbery faces new grand theft case while on probation, records showlead-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\/05\/N664CO7EYRFGZJCFOLFS7N4O6U.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Deputies arrested Michael Tilley on Friday in Miami Gardens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies recently arrested a 39-year-old man accused of stealing luggage at Miami International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video shows Michael Tilley and a woman grabbing two pieces of luggage belonging to American Airlines passengers from a carousel on April 18 at MIA, according to a deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBoth subjects then exited the terminal, entered the vehicle, and fled the area,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tilley, of Miami Gardens, \u201cpawned two pairs of shoes\u201d on April 20 that had been in the stolen luggage, according to the deputy\u2019s report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies arrested Tilley on Friday in Miami Gardens. Court records show Tilley was convicted of robbery in 2023 and sentenced to a 5-year probation. It was set to end on Oct. 28, 2028, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com\/offenderSearch\/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&amp;DCNumber=M68514&amp;TypeSearch=AO\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com\/offenderSearch\/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&amp;DCNumber=M68514&amp;TypeSearch=AO\">according<\/a> to the Florida Department of Corrections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a new grand theft case against him on Saturday. He appeared in bond court, and a judge ordered him to stay away from MIA. His bond was $2,500. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM Felon convicted of robbery faces new grand theft case while on probation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-266981","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\/266981","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=266981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}