A Florida man accused of stealing multiple bottles of tequila from a liquor store was later arrested for DUI, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said surveillance video showed the suspect stealing multiple bottles of tequila by stuffing them into a backpack.<\/p>\n
It’s believed he stole thousands of dollars’ worth of tequila from the retailer, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Investigators used surveillance video and other methods to identify the suspect as 31-year-old Michael Anthony Ruiz of Port St. Lucie, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
But before he could be arrested for the liquor theft, Ruiz was arrested for driving under the influence in another jurisdiction, officials said.<\/p>\n
He was booked into jail on DUI charges, and also faces theft and other charges, records show.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe Ruiz may be responsible for similar thefts involving tequila and other merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man accused of stealing multiple bottles of tequila from a liquor store was later arrested for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-359927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359927","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=359927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}