{"id":387291,"date":"2026-09-01T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:46:11","slug":"2nd-17-year-old-charged-as-adult-in-violent-armed-robbery-at-miami-dade-mcdonalds-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387291\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd 17-year-old charged as adult in violent armed robbery at Miami-Dade McDonald\u2019s \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second 17-year-old suspect has been charged as an adult in connection with a violent armed robbery at a Miami-Dade McDonald’s last year, records showed.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Amaya had been arrested back on Aug. 12 on armed robbery and armed robbery conspiracy charges, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n

He was expected to appear in bond court Tuesday after he was charged as an adult.<\/p>\n

Another 17-year-old, Jencarlos Gamez, had been arrested back on July 21 and was also later charged as an adult<\/a> in the McDonald’s robbery and other crimes.<\/p>\n

The McDonald’s robbery happened Dec. 13, 2025, at the fast food restaurant at 12185 Southwest 26th Street.<\/p>\n

The victim had been convinced to enter a bathroom where the teen suspects pointed guns at him and demanded his property, the report said.<\/p>\n

At one point, the suspects started attacking the victim, pistol-whipping him and punching him multiple times while trying to steal his bracelet and earrings, the report said.<\/p>\n

Gamez punched the victim multiple times while demanding his property, and the third suspect held the victim down as they continued to attack him, the report said.<\/p>\n

The victim was able to escape and run for help, and Gamez was later identified as one of the suspects, and he gave a confession to his involvement in the robbery, the report said.<\/p>\n

Amaya was linked to the crime through a group text where the suspects orchestrated the robbery, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second 17-year-old suspect has been charged as an adult in connection with a violent armed robbery at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-387291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387291","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=387291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}