{"id":333196,"date":"2026-07-08T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:17:10","slug":"man-known-as-tupac-starts-fire-damaging-miami-dade-county-property-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333196\/","title":{"rendered":"Man known as \u2018Tupac\u2019 starts fire, damaging Miami-Dade County property, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:48 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\/2YTRRJT2W5DHXGEBTLTIQQ3K4U.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A man known to authorities as \u201cTupac\u201d from past criminal investigations is now facing charges in connection with an arson case in Miami-Dade County, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Tupac, whose real name is Edwin Vega Serrano, was arrested Tuesday in connection with an arson that occurred June 27, damaging property belonging to the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Serrano, 50, who is homeless, was captured on surveillance video igniting a pile of illegally dumped waste directly northeast of 3333 NW 38th St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He then grabbed an unknown object and broke a Miami-Dade Solid Waste Department pole camera, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the video then shows Serrano igniting a bag on fire, which was in the middle of Northwest 33rd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said about $4,200 worth of damage was caused by the fire to property belonging to the Board of Commissioners, including about 45 feet of a fence and five 18-inch drainage pipes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Serrano was detained Tuesday after two Department of Transportation and Public Works employees spotted him near Northwest 33rd Avenue and 37th Street and flagged down a deputy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Serrano was arrested on charges of second-degree arson and criminal mischief. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said he invoked his right to counsel and did not answer questions about the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday morning, Serrano was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his total bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/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\/07\/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:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man known to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-333196","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\/333196","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=333196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}