{"id":329028,"date":"2026-07-04T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329028\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:26:11","slug":"fitness-influencer-acquitted-of-most-serious-charges-in-cop-hit-and-run-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329028\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness influencer acquitted of most serious charges in cop hit-and-run case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM<\/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\/07\/NGR3GCUQHBEYRFMK76FG7RGGVA.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A Miami-Dade jury acquitted a South Beach fitness influencer who faced multiple felony charges after being accused of running over a Miami Beach police officer and fleeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Armando Foga\u00e7a, then 37, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/06\/south-beach-fitness-influencer-faces-4-felonies-for-running-over-cop-fleeing-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/06\/south-beach-fitness-influencer-faces-4-felonies-for-running-over-cop-fleeing-police-say\/\">had been accused<\/a> of hitting a Miami Beach police officer who had tried stopping him in 2025 and then fleeing onto the MacArthur Causeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show a jury acquitted him of hit-and-run, aggravated battery and reckless driving charges in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, he was convicted of two misdemeanors: driving without a license and failing to obey a police officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On those charges, records show he received a 60-day jail sentence.<\/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\/07\/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:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 A Miami-Dade jury acquitted a South Beach fitness influencer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-329028","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\/329028","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=329028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}