{"id":342459,"date":"2026-07-16T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342459\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:33:28","slug":"man-accused-of-attacking-roommate-with-metal-pole-in-edgewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342459\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of attacking roommate with metal pole in Edgewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 2:32 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\/07\/7WAS3DJSURHPFA5QOYTJFH4DKQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A 50-year-old Miami man was arrested after police said he attacked his roommate with a metal pole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/16\/acusan-a-hombre-de-atacar-a-companero-de-vivienda-con-un-tubo-de-metal-en-edgewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/16\/acusan-a-hombre-de-atacar-a-companero-de-vivienda-con-un-tubo-de-metal-en-edgewater\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened just after 2 a.m. along Northeast 22nd Street, west of Second Avenue, in Miami\u2019s Edgewater neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami Police Department, the victim was in a vehicle being driven by the suspect, identified as Orlando Jose Olivares, when they got into an argument after Olivares allegedly almost caused a collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The argument continued until they reached their home, when police said the victim told officers he saw Olivares walking toward him with what was described as a steel fence post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest form, \u201cthe victim told him to put the metal post down and fight like men\u201d but instead, police said Olivares struck the victim in the elbow and head with the pole, causing the victim to fall to the ground, after which Olivares then \u201cgot on top of the victim in a full mount position\u201d and continued to punch him \u201cand at one point choking him from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the victim\u2019s wife recorded a portion of the altercation on her cell phone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Olivares is facing a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and as of Thursday afternoon was being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed 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=\"David Dwork\" 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\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM Updated:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 A 50-year-old Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-342459","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\/342459","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=342459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}