{"id":282928,"date":"2026-05-24T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:12:23","slug":"miami-dade-duo-faces-drug-charges-in-florida-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282928\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade duo faces drug charges in Florida Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 12:59 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-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\/LTF6ZKS53ZHPRMLNJ5BVNSPYJI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Deputies arrested Nicholas Pichardo, a landscaper, and Claudia Yero, a behavioral therapist, on May 22, in Monroe County, records showed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONROE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 25-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman from Miami-Dade County faced drug charges on Sunday after a recent traffic stop in the Florida Keys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicholas Pichardo, a landscaper, and Claudia Yero, a behavioral therapist, were traveling with fentanyl, cocaine, and ecstasy, according to Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pichardo was driving a Ram pickup truck \u2014 while under the influence and with an expired Florida driver\u2019s license \u2014 when deputies stopped him shortly after 9 p.m. on May 22, on U.S. 1, in Key Largo, according to deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Later in jail, Pichardo attempted to smuggle Oxycodone pills into the facility, according to the MCSO. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pichardo faced nine charges: Four counts of drug possession, two counts of driving under the influence with an unlawful blood alcohol level, marijuana possession, cocaine possession, and smuggling contraband. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yero faced three charges: Two counts of drug possession and cocaine possession. <\/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 24, 2026 at 12:59 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDeputies arrested Nicholas Pichardo, a landscaper, and Claudia Yero, a behavioral therapist,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282928","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=282928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}