{"id":374804,"date":"2026-08-18T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374804\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:10:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-being-caught-spray-painting-inside-miami-seaquarium-deputies-say-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374804\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after being caught spray-painting inside Miami Seaquarium, deputies say &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIRGINIA KEY, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A 45-year-old was arrested after deputies said they caught him spray-painting an announcer\u2019s booth inside the Miami Seaquarium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office arrest report, deputies responded to the attraction along Rickenbacker Causeway on Monday after a security guard spotted a person who had arrived on a bicycle inside the property on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A deputy searching the property found Adam Paul Vargas inside the Golden Dome area actively spray-painting the announcer\u2019s booth, the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vargas complied with the deputy\u2019s commands and was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and criminal mischief causing $1,000 or more in damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge found probable cause and issued $3,000 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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":"VIRGINIA KEY, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A 45-year-old was arrested after deputies said they caught him spray-painting an announcer\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-374804","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\/374804","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=374804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}