{"id":304185,"date":"2026-06-11T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304185\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:42:11","slug":"miami-woman-74-arrested-after-trying-to-attack-neighbor-over-package-dispute-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304185\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami woman, 74, arrested after trying to attack neighbor over package dispute, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 11, 2026 at 2:22 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\/ZVQFRULICRBNTLQ6H2AEYGC6SI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 A 74-year-old Miami woman was arrested Wednesday after she tried to attack one of her neighbors with a wooden stool over a dispute about a package, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, officers responded to the scene at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and found the suspect, Alfrada Barbara Garcia, being looked at by paramedics due to several scratches on her face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Garcia claimed that she was assaulted by the victim after seeing the victim take a package from the mailbox that didn\u2019t belong to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Garcia and a witness, who the package belonged to, confronted the victim, but the victim returned the package and said she only had it because it was delivered to the wrong address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, video obtained by property management shows Garcia walking on the sidewalk before running over to a small wooden stool chair, picking it up over her head and swinging it several times at the victim in a downward motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim was able to take the stool away from Garcia and then pulled her to the ground and held her down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Garcia claimed that the victim had punched her in the back before she picked up the stool, but the witness told police that Garcia was never struck by the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Garcia was arrested on a charge of attempted aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.<\/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\/06\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 11, 2026 at 2:22 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) MIAMI \u2014 A 74-year-old Miami woman was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-304185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304185","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=304185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}