{"id":336551,"date":"2026-07-11T02:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T02:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:54:17","slug":"miami-dade-deputies-arrest-man-for-impersonating-police-officer-with-sirens-lights-and-prisoner-compartment-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336551\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade deputies arrest man for impersonating police officer with sirens, lights and prisoner compartment in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer after authorities say he was spotted driving a vehicle equipped with emergency sirens, lights, a spotlight, a push-bar, and a prisoner compartment.<\/p>\n<p>Enrique Perez-Palenzuela faced a judge Friday morning following his arrest Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, Miami-Dade deputies stopped Perez-Palenzuela after observing him exiting a shopping plaza in Homestead while ignoring traffic signals. Police said they initially witnessed Perez-Palenzuela exit his vehicle with a firearm visible at his waist.<\/p>\n<p>Perez-Palenzuela told police that the vehicle&#8217;s emergency equipment was already installed when he purchased it.<\/p>\n<p>He has since posted bond. CBS News Miami has reached out to his defense attorney for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer after authorities say he was spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,1714,123,125,124,1064,40968,8181,807],"class_list":["post-336551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-homestead","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office","tag-police-officers","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336551","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=336551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}