{"id":371634,"date":"2026-08-14T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371634\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:32:15","slug":"2nd-man-arrested-in-theft-of-jakey-duque-statue-from-miami-lakes-park-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371634\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd man arrested in theft of Jakey Duque statue from Miami Lakes park &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Authorities said they have arrested a second man in connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/statue-honoring-5-year-old-boy-who-lost-fight-with-cancer-stolen-from-miami-lakes-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the theft of a statue<\/a> from a memorial at a Miami Lakes park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives on Thursday night said they apprehended 25-year-old Damian De Los Santos, hours after they confirmed the arrest of 27-year-old Derick Coca, in relation to Saturday afternoon\u2019s theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statue of Jakey Duque <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/statue-honoring-5-year-old-who-lost-cancer-battle-recovered-after-being-stolen-from-miami-lakes-park-man-bonds-out-of-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was recovered<\/a> after his parents, Karen and Orlando Duque, received anonymous text messages, leading them to a home in Northwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bronze statue is back where it belongs at the park named after him, located near Northwest 154th Street and 89th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jakey inspired thousands of people, who became known as Jakey\u2019s Army, during his battle with brain cancer. He died in June of 2020 at 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Los Santos and Coca have both been charged with grand theft. Coca bonded out of jail on Thursday. De Los Santos is being held on a $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Authorities said they have arrested a second man in connection to the theft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-371634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371634","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=371634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}