arrested on similar charges<\/a> shortly after the home invasion, records showed.<\/p>\nAccording to an arrest report, the victim, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a motorized scooter, was in the North Miami home when the robbery happened around 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
As a second person was leaving the home, Brooks rushed toward the open door armed with a handgun and demanded the victim give him money and marijuana and threatened to shoot him and the other person, the report said.<\/p>\n
The other person, a woman, fled on foot and called police from nearby.<\/p>\n
Brooks pushed the victim out of his scooter, tied his hands behind his back with a USB charging cable, and dragged him into a bedroom, the report said.<\/p>\n
He ransacked the room and took a bank bag containing $2,000 before fleeing, the report said.<\/p>\n
Officers responded and found a gray Kia nearby that was unlocked with the keys inside and when the owner of the car arrived he told police he lent the car to Brooks, who claimed he needed it for an emergency, the report said.<\/p>\n
The owner said Brooks called him around 4 a.m. and told him he left the car behind, the report said.<\/p>\n
When the car was searched, officers found a satchel containing drugs and a wallet with multiple credit cards and a Social Security card belonging to Brooks, the report said.<\/p>\n
Brooks, who is already on probation, was arrested at his probation office in Miami Gardens, the report said.<\/p>\n
As police continued to investigate, they were told by the woman who’d fled the home that she had gone to the victim’s home to have sex with him and that the meeting was arranged by a man she knew as Brandon, the report said.<\/p>\n
The number the woman had for Brandon matched a phone number that had texted with Brooks shortly before the home invasion, the report said.<\/p>\n
One message read “Let me know when she coming out?” while another said “Make sure she don’t forget 6ft long dreads mouth full of golds,” the report said.<\/p>\n
Authorities were able to link the number with Flint, the report said.<\/p>\n
“Probable cause exists to believe that the defendant knowingly participated in the planning, coordination, and facilitation of the armed home invasion robbery,” the report said.<\/p>\n
After Flint was taken into custody, he denied any involvement in the robbery, the report said.<\/p>\n
Flint was booked into jail and on Wednesday appeared before a judge, who set his bond at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second suspect has been arrested in connection with an armed home invasion in North Miami in which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,7338],"class_list":["post-394911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-north-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394911","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=394911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}