{"id":353958,"date":"2026-07-27T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:37:07","slug":"thirsty-balcony-burglar-hits-miami-beach-hotel-rooms-manages-to-only-steal-apple-juice-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353958\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty balcony burglar hits Miami Beach hotel rooms, manages to only steal apple juice, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A man scaled a Miami Beach hotel and tried to enter four rooms through the balconies early Sunday morning, police say. They say the thirsty thief was successful twice, but only managed to steal two containers of apple juice before being caught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/27\/ladron-sediento-entra-por-balcones-a-habitaciones-de-hotel-en-miami-beach-y-solo-logra-robar-jugo-de-manzana-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/27\/ladron-sediento-entra-por-balcones-a-habitaciones-de-hotel-en-miami-beach-y-solo-logra-robar-jugo-de-manzana-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami Beach Police Department, the burglaries happened at around 4:15 a.m. at the Eden Roc Miami Beach, located at 4525 Collins Ave. in the Mid-Beach area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said hotel staff called police to alert them that Patrick Lee Bryant, who \u201chad previously been arrested\u201d there, was back and \u201cattempting to gain unauthorized access to guest rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bryant, 37, of northwest Miami-Dade, had gained access to the fourth-floor balconies \u201cby climbing toward guest rooms,\u201d an MBPD arrest report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the first room, he stole and drank the two apple juices, worth $10, police said. They said he was unsuccessful trying to get into the second, managed to get into the third but stole nothing, and was again foiled by a locked door on the fourth balcony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said officers encountered Bryant at the top of the hotel\u2019s pool terrace and took him into custody after a brief foot chase in which he resisted arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Bryant had warrants for burglary, theft and two probation violations and has \u201cmultiple previous theft convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was set to be off probation on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additionally, they said he \u201chas previously been charged as a prisoner escapee and should be considered a risk to escape and\/or flee if released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bryant, facing multiple new burglary charges, was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday afternoon.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A man scaled a Miami Beach hotel and tried to enter four rooms through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-353958","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\/353958","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=353958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}