{"id":386273,"date":"2026-08-31T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:12:12","slug":"man-arrested-after-joking-that-he-had-a-grenade-at-american-airlines-counter-at-mia-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386273\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after \u2018joking\u2019 that he had a grenade at American Airlines counter at MIA, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BSTWXFCBDRCEBFHN6SGDMMR2VE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 52-year-old man was arrested Sunday after an American Airlines employee at Miami International Airport was apparently unamused by his joke at the ticket counter, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Osniel Blanco-Lopez, of Miami, was at the ticket counter early Sunday morning when an American Airlines ticket agent asked him, \u201cDo you have any dangerous goods?\u201d as part of standard protocol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Blanco-Lopez said \u201cno,\u201d but then said, \u201cI have a grenade\u201d in Spanish before laughing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another ticket agent who was standing nearby told Blanco-Lopez \u201cthat is not a joke\u201d before calling authorities, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, an airport bomb detection K-9 responded to check on Blanco-Lopez\u2019s luggage and no explosives were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Blanco-Lopez was transported to the MDSO airport station and told law enforcement that he was \u201cjust joking around\u201d when he made the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was subsequently arrested on a charge of making a false report about placing a bomb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday afternoon, the Cuban national was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/6MNVTXJEDBE6TCNZGSMH4XJE.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 52-year-old man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-386273","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\/386273","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=386273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}