{"id":283613,"date":"2026-05-25T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:05:08","slug":"unattended-bag-causes-disruptions-at-miami-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283613\/","title":{"rendered":"Unattended bag causes disruptions at Miami International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM<\/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\/O6V5LTB2U3RAHU3N5SXU6OGGIA.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Associated Press <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A \u201cpotential security threat\u201d is causing disruptions Monday morning at Miami International Airport, airport officials confirmed in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to officials, portions of the North and Central terminals before the security checkpoints have been evacuated and the incident is also impacting vehicular traffic entering the airport, causing delays on both the arrivals and departures levels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Airport officials said they are working with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies confirmed that K-9 units responded to the area after receiving a report about an unattended bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe preliminary information revealed that area Terminals 11-19 were evacuated out of precaution and made safe until MDSO bomb squad responds,\u201d a MDSO spokesperson said in an email to Local 10 News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TravelAdvisory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TravelAdvisory<\/a> (05\/25\/26) \u26a0\ufe0f<br \/>We are working with our partners at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiDade_SO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MiamiDade_SO<\/a> regarding a potential security threat at MIA. Out of an abundance of caution, portions of the North and Central Terminals prior to the security checkpoints have been temporarily evacuated.<br \/>This\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YKvN7goA6v\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YKvN7goA6v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami Int&#8217;l Airport (@iflymia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iflymia\/status\/2058881078295720124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandAssociated Press MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A \u201cpotential security threat\u201d is causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-283613","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\/283613","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=283613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}