{"id":374981,"date":"2026-08-18T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374981\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:24:10","slug":"miami-beach-police-sergeant-helps-save-senior-choking-during-lunch-in-hialeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374981\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach police sergeant helps save senior choking during lunch in Hialeah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 A Miami Beach police officer is being hailed a hero after jumping into action to help a senior who was choking while having lunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The life-saving actions occurred on Saturday at La Vina Aragon Restaurant y Cafeteria, located at 8155 W. Eighth Ave. in Hialeah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to authorities, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Alex Bello was working at a property and evidence warehouse in Hialeah when he stopped for lunch at the restaurant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While he was at the restaurant, Bello noticed an 80-year-old man who started choking and quickly moved to help him, performing the Heimlich maneuver. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bello\u2019s quick actions saved him, who started breathing again at the restaurant, much to the delight of the people who were watching the ordeal unfold. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man did not suffer any additional injuries and at last check was doing just fine. <\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Rosh Lowe\" 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\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM Updated:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A Miami Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-374981","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\/374981","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=374981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}