{"id":376258,"date":"2026-08-20T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:00:20","slug":"graffiti-artist-atomik-arrested-after-spray-painting-at-miami-seaquarium-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376258\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti artist \u2018ATOMIK\u2019 arrested after spray painting at Miami Seaquarium, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A well-known South Florida graffiti artist accused of going into the Miami Seaquarium and spray painting an announcer&#8217;s booth was arrested on Monday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Vargas, 45, was charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>During his court appearance, a judge set Vargas&#8217; bond at $3,000 and ordered him to stay away from the Miami Seaquarium. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies arrived at 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway after receiving reports of burglary.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest report said deputies were given a description of a man who arrived at the Seaquarium on a bicycle, and a security guard saw him on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>As deputies canvassed the Seaquarium, they found Vargas at the Golden Dome area, where he was spray painting the announcer&#8217;s booth, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies then told Vargas to stop and come to them, which he complied with, and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas, who goes by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/atomiko\/?hl=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/atomiko\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ATOMIK<\/a>, has over 100,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A well-known South Florida graffiti artist accused of going into the Miami Seaquarium and spray painting an announcer&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,23666],"class_list":["post-376258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-seaquarium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376258","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=376258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}