{"id":381502,"date":"2026-08-26T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:12:18","slug":"made-me-angry-tip-jar-theft-caught-on-camera-at-edgewater-eatery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381502\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Made me angry\u2019: Tip jar theft caught on camera at Edgewater eatery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Surveillance video captured the moment a woman snatched a tip jar from a Miami Mexican restaurant as the man she\u2019s with seems to act as a lookout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/25\/me-dio-rabia-captan-en-camara-robo-de-frasco-de-propinas-en-restaurante-de-edgewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/25\/me-dio-rabia-captan-en-camara-robo-de-frasco-de-propinas-en-restaurante-de-edgewater\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Tacos &amp; Cantina La Potranca\u2019s location at 2923 Biscayne Blvd. in the city\u2019s Edgewater neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I saw the video, they made me angry,\u201d Brisa Briones, the restaurant\u2019s general manager, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman comes in with an empty paper bag, looks around and grabs the entire plastic tip jar, stuffing it inside the bag. Briones said it had about $200 worth of tips inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Afterward, Briones said restaurant staffers brought out the couple\u2019s to-go order, \u201ctwo or three\u201d taquitos, and they left after grabbing a fistful of napkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Server Glendys Ramirez said the couple paid \u201cwith cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Briones said staff members created the tip jar so customers with to-go orders could direct their tips to the cooks who made their food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe people in the kitchen work so hard,\u201d she said. \u201cThey don\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Briones said staff at the restaurant only realized the jar was missing the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now Miami police are using the video to investigate. Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.<\/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=\"Liane Morejon\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/V2U27LBKZJDZHIUX2V7AE7O6.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Liane Morejon<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Liane Morejon is an Emmy-winning anchor and reporter who joined the Local 10 News family in January 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM MIAMI \u2014 Surveillance video captured the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-381502","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\/381502","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=381502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}