{"id":370544,"date":"2026-08-13T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:50:09","slug":"miami-beach-police-man-accused-of-sexual-battery-says-victims-stop-wasnt-sincere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370544\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach police: Man accused of sexual battery says victim\u2019s \u2018stop\u2019 wasn\u2019t \u2018sincere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 12:50 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\/08\/L5T5OVQBCFDF3PAP22CRJF7IJQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Police officers arrested Adriyel Manzoratte on Wednesday morning in Miami Beach after a woman reported he sexually assaulted her on the beach in the Midbeach neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A woman accused a 46-year-old man of sexually assaulting her on Tuesday morning in Miami Beach, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman said she \u201cfelt bad\u201d for Adriyel Manzoratte, who claimed he was wearing his underwear on the beach after a theft, so she \u201coffered him a towel,\u201d and he \u201csat down next to her,\u201d according to a police officer\u2019s arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim said Manzoratte masturbated in front of her before holding her down and sexually assaulting her on the beach, near Collins Avenue and 25th Street, according to the police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers arrested Manzoratte, who later admitted to a detective that he had masturbated next to the woman before making more advances, according to the police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe victim said stop multiple times, but he did not believe she was being sincere,\u201d a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers arrested Manzoratte shortly after 11:05 a.m. on Wednesday on the beach, and corrections booked him at 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manzoratte faced a sexual battery charge. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPolice officers arrested Adriyel Manzoratte on Wednesday morning in Miami Beach after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-370544","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\/370544","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=370544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}