{"id":294449,"date":"2026-06-03T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:24:08","slug":"mdso-miami-dade-bus-driver-arrested-after-boy-6-found-alone-in-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294449\/","title":{"rendered":"MDSO: Miami-Dade bus driver arrested after boy, 6, found alone in street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A bus driver in Miami-Dade County was arrested Tuesday after a young boy was left alone inside her bus and then wandered into the roadway near her home, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/03\/mdso-arrestan-a-conductora-de-autobus-de-miami-dade-tras-hallar-a-nino-de-6-anos-solo-en-la-calle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/03\/mdso-arrestan-a-conductora-de-autobus-de-miami-dade-tras-hallar-a-nino-de-6-anos-solo-en-la-calle\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Patricia Barberena, 62, picked the boy up Tuesday morning from his daycare and then headed toward his school to drop him off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But deputies said the boy fell asleep on the bus and didn\u2019t get off once they arrived at his school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Barberena then drove the bus to her home and parked along the county swale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the boy woke up after Barberena had already entered her home and exited the bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A passerby found him a short time later walking along Southwest 298th Terrace and 157th Avenue and called MDSO, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the boy\u2019s school called Barberena to inform her that the boy never arrived and she then went outside to look for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, she was greeted by deputies who transported her to the South District Station in Cutler Bay for questioning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Barberena admitted to not inspecting the bus to see if any students were still on it before she drove home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was arrested on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The name of the school the boy attends was not disclosed in the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday morning, Barberena was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A bus driver in Miami-Dade County was arrested Tuesday after a young boy was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-294449","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\/294449","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=294449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}