{"id":278578,"date":"2026-05-20T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:50:09","slug":"surveillance-shows-masked-thieves-burglarizing-cars-in-miami-dade-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278578\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance shows masked thieves burglarizing cars in Miami-Dade \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies say thieves targeted residents in northeast Miami-Dade, burglarizing 19 cars and stealing one from an apartment complex early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies responded before 7 a.m. to the complex near Miami Gardens Drive and Interstate 95 and found that the vehicles had been broken into and that one was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows three men walking outside the building and walking into the parking lot. One man takes cover and kneels down to avoid being seen by a passerby.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said the men were after one thing: the airbags. Onniel Omelis said he just moved in on Friday and had his windows shattered and an airbag stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Motor industry publications <a href=\"https:\/\/motorweek.org\/this-just-in\/airbag-thefts-are-still-a-thing-and-hondas-remain-a-popular-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> that airbag thefts have remained a widespread crime nationwide for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating. There is no information on the subjects, whom deputies said were masked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies say thieves targeted residents in northeast Miami-Dade, burglarizing 19 cars and stealing one from an apartment complex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-278578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278578","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=278578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}