{"id":312130,"date":"2026-06-18T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312130\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:30:09","slug":"man-swinging-knife-at-people-on-ocean-drive-says-he-was-just-trying-to-get-girls-numbers-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312130\/","title":{"rendered":"Man swinging knife at people on Ocean Drive says he was \u2018just trying to get girls\u2019 numbers\u2019: Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 18, 2026 at 12:04 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\/RWXEM52RFREOBCBMYNX6RWYJ4I.jpg\"  width=\"3196\" height=\"1797\"\/>Juan Rivera (MDCR\/WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Miami Beach police say a 25-year-old man caused a scare on Ocean Drive on Tuesday night, swinging a knife and \u201charassing patrons\u201d in the popular tourist area on South Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/18\/arrestan-a-hombre-que-blandia-cuchillo-contra-personas-en-ocean-drive-dijo-que-solo-intentaba-conseguir-numeros-de-telefono-de-mujeres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/18\/arrestan-a-hombre-que-blandia-cuchillo-contra-personas-en-ocean-drive-dijo-que-solo-intentaba-conseguir-numeros-de-telefono-de-mujeres\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said it happened just after 11:45 p.m. near Ninth Street. An arrest report from the Miami Beach Police Department states that a worker at Mango\u2019s nightclub reported that a man, later identified as Juan Luis Rivera Jr., was exhibiting the threatening behaviors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they were able to track down two victims, who said Rivera approached them, lifted his jacket to show a pocketknife in his waistband and was \u201cmumbling incoherently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Rivera then followed the victims and was eventually \u201cflanking\u201d them, asking them, \u201cWhy y\u2019all walking so fast?\u201d while holding the knife in his hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said after noticing police officers in the area, Rivera took off. They said two witnesses later flagged down two police officers and pointed out Rivera, who was walking nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they detained him and found the folding knife. The report states that Rivera told the officers, \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything. I was just trying to get girls\u2019 numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrested Rivera, who has an address in Miami\u2019s Overtown neighborhood, on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon just after midnight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday morning, he was being held in 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=\"Chris Gothner\" 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\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM Updated:\u00a0June 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandJuan Rivera (MDCR\/WPLG) MIAMI BEACH, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-312130","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\/312130","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=312130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}