{"id":269587,"date":"2026-05-13T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:46:11","slug":"miami-dade-deputies-accuse-3-of-stealing-mail-1-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269587\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade deputies accuse 3 of stealing mail, 1 surrenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0May 13, 2026 at 11:18 AM<\/p>\n

lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand\"\"Deputies arrested Ariadnis Mejias on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Deputies accused two women and a man of stealing packages and mail from a building in Miami-Dade County\u2019s Dadeland area. <\/p>\n

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Deputies identified one of the women as Ariadnis Mejias and the man as Luis Sanchez after thefts from a password-protected package room at Motion at Dadeland at 8400 South Dixie Highway, records show. <\/p>\n

Surveillance video showed the duo stealing at least six packages on March 18, Mejias stealing three packages on March 22, and Mejias and a woman stealing two packages on March 31, according to a deputy\u2019s report. <\/p>\n

Among the stolen mail was a credit card that surveillance video shows Mejias and Sanchez later used to buy some $444 in merchandise at Macy\u2019s, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n

Mejias surrendered to deputies on Tuesday at the Kendall District Station, and corrections booked her at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. <\/p>\n

Mejias faced three counts of burglary of an occupied structure and fraudulent use of a credit card. She also had seven warrant cases while out on felony bond for burglary and petit theft. <\/p>\n

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

\"AndreaAndrea Torres<\/p>\n

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 13, 2026 at 11:18 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDeputies arrested Ariadnis Mejias on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-269587","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\/269587","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=269587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}