{"id":374830,"date":"2026-08-18T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:46:09","slug":"man-jailed-after-body-found-hidden-decomposing-in-kia-at-northside-shopping-center-mdso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374830\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed after body found hidden, decomposing in Kia at Northside Shopping Center: MDSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade deputies said they were sent to a busy shopping plaza in the unincorporated West Little River area in May after someone called to report a foul-smelling Kia with flies around it. They said a gruesome discovery inside eventually led to an arrest on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/18\/encarcelan-hombre-tras-hallar-cadaver-oculto-y-descompuesto-dentro-de-un-kia-en-centro-comercial-northside-mdso\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/18\/encarcelan-hombre-tras-hallar-cadaver-oculto-y-descompuesto-dentro-de-un-kia-en-centro-comercial-northside-mdso\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said they responded to the Northside Shopping Center, located at 7900 NW 27th Ave., just before 7 a.m. on May 25 and discovered the body of Jean Paul Larice, 36, in the backseat of his blue 2026 Kia K4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Larice\u2019s body was concealed below two yoga mats and was \u201cin an advanced stage of decomposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that investigators determined that two days prior, Darrell Anderson, 39, of Miami, had gotten into Larice\u2019s vehicle, which was being driven by \u201cunknown\u201d man, with Larice \u201cunconscious and slumped over in the back seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said that Anderson told investigators that he, along with the other man, had \u201cvisited several liquor stores with the victim in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt some point, during the early morning hours of (May 24), (Anderson) realized the victim was deceased,\u201d the report states. \u201cThe unknown male eventually exited the vehicle and left (Anderson) in custody of the car. (He) advised that he had possession of the vehicle for approximately one and a half days with the victim deceased in the backseat and was trying to decide what to do with the vehicle and the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the meantime, deputies said Anderson sold Larice\u2019s cellphone at an automated kiosk at the Walmart at 3200 NW 79th St., near the shopping center, where he falsely signed a legal declaration claiming the phone was a \u201cgift\u201d from a friend in Homestead named \u201cRaymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said surveillance video from May 25 showed Anderson getting out of the vehicle after leaving it at the shopping center and leaving it without notifying authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, deputies found Anderson on Monday where he \u201cconfessed\u201d to the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anderson is now facing charges of failing to report a death with intent to conceal, grand theft auto, dealing in stolen property and false verification of ownership to a pawnbroker, according to jail records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday afternoon, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $10,000 bond.<\/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-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade deputies said they were sent to a busy shopping plaza in the unincorporated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-374830","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\/374830","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=374830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}