{"id":309380,"date":"2026-06-16T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309380\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:10:06","slug":"new-police-chief-edwin-lopez-im-just-a-humble-kid-from-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309380\/","title":{"rendered":"New Police Chief Edwin Lopez: \u2018I\u2019m just a humble kid from Miami\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami swears in new police chief <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 After a swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday in downtown Miami, Chief Edwin Lopez said he was ready to meet all of the department\u2019s police officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lopez, 45, the former chief of the Doral Police Department, stood next to his wife, Jannett Lopez, on stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m just a humble kid from Miami that grew up with no money, immigrant parents,\u201c said Lopez, who has more than 28 years of experience in law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins approved of Miami City Manager James Reyes\u2019s choice to succeed Manuel Morales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lopez, a Southwest Miami Senior High School and Florida International University graduate, was the chief of the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lopez\u2019s new salary with the city will be $325,000. <\/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=\"Hannah Yechivi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/878c3ada-e5a5-4129-8c64-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Hannah Yechivi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Hannah Yechivi joined the Local 10 News team in May of 2024.<\/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\/06\/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:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM Updated:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM Miami swears in new police chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-309380","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\/309380","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=309380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}