{"id":389131,"date":"2026-09-03T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:44:13","slug":"man-arrested-after-telling-american-airlines-gate-agent-he-had-a-bomb-at-miami-airport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389131\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after telling American Airlines gate agent he had a bomb at Miami airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) &#8211; A man was arrested after telling a gate agent who asked him if he had lithium batteries that he had a bomb, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Yoel Guevara-Crespo was arrested after allegedly telling a gate agent he had a bomb. He said...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788425053_600_Y5ETGCXODNHSBF2XYVEODHQDKU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Yoel Guevara-Crespo was arrested after allegedly telling a gate agent he had a bomb. He said he was joking.(MDCR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An American Airlines gate agent at Miami International Airport was asking Yoel Guevara-Crespo, 33, \u201cstandard security questions\u201d as he was about to board a flight to Cuba, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When the gate agent asked Guevara-Crespo if he had lithium batteries or incendiary devices in his bag, he said, \u201cNo, but I have a bomb,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/01\/man-flying-to-cuba-tells-aa-gate-agent-at-mia-no-lithium-batteries-but-i-have-a-bomb-cops-say\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=snd&amp;utm_content=wplg10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/01\/man-flying-to-cuba-tells-aa-gate-agent-at-mia-no-lithium-batteries-but-i-have-a-bomb-cops-say\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=snd&amp;utm_content=wplg10\">WPLG<\/a> reported that the gate agent told Guevara-Crespo that he could not get on the flight and that she would be contacting her supervisor. Guevara-Crespo told her that he was joking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guevara-Crespo was arrested on a false bomb report charge, and authorities swept his luggage with a K-9 but did not find a bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) &#8211; A man was arrested after telling a gate agent who asked him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[15765,155469,155464,155470,155465,155466,225,227,226,155463,155467,1063,155468,155462,155471],"class_list":["post-389131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-american-airlines","tag-american-airlines-airport-incident","tag-american-airlines-gate-agent","tag-bomb-report-at-miami-international-airport","tag-false-bomb-report-charge","tag-flight-to-cuba-bomb-claim","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-man-arrested-at-miami-airport","tag-miami-airport-bomb-arrest","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-international-airport-arrest","tag-miami-international-airport-bomb-report","tag-yoel-guevara-crespo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389131","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=389131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}