{"id":303295,"date":"2026-06-11T00:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303295\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:28:42","slug":"security-guard-accused-of-stealing-fifa-referee-uniform-from-miami-beach-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303295\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard accused of stealing FIFA referee uniform from Miami Beach hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 10, 2026 at 5:59 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\/06\/TR3IHCXVDZEJLFFUL7YJJUQ47M.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>WPLG <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Outside the Grand Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, FIFA logos could be seen throughout the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/10\/acusan-a-guardia-de-seguridad-de-robar-uniforme-de-arbitro-de-la-fifa-en-hotel-de-miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/10\/acusan-a-guardia-de-seguridad-de-robar-uniforme-de-arbitro-de-la-fifa-en-hotel-de-miami-beach\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But on Sunday, something was missing: a referee\u2019s uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the uniform was stolen by Jordan Martinez, a security guard at the hotel, and the theft was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, Martinez was brought into an interview room where he confessed to taking laundry bags that contained FIFA referee uniforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Martinez told investigators that when he realized the bags contained official FIFA referee uniforms, he decided to keep them because he is a big soccer fan and wanted to wear one after the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s insane,\u201d one tourist from Iowa said. \u201cI\u2019m not even from here, I\u2019m from Iowa. I don\u2019t know why he\u2019ll steal a jersey from a referee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said equipment and property belonging to two FIFA officials were stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The motive remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s kind of odd. Maybe he\u2019s trying to sell it. I have no idea,\u201d the tourist said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not provide further details about what Martinez planned to do with the referee\u2019s uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities quickly arrested Martinez. Instead of wearing a referee\u2019s uniform, he now faces a charge of third-degree grand theft.<\/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=\"Rosh Lowe\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM Updated:\u00a0June 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandWPLG MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-303295","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\/303295","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=303295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}