{"id":396955,"date":"2026-09-11T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396955\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:02:10","slug":"miami-man-faces-14-felonies-for-having-videos-of-child-sex-abuse-bestiality-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396955\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami man faces 14 felonies for having videos of child sex abuse, bestiality, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM<\/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\/09\/PB3PWSUCLFDSFFK4PCG4O67RYQ.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Seth Vela (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A Miami man is facing 14 felony charges after police said he had more than a dozen child sexual abuse videos, one of which involved bestiality, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Miami Police Department arrest report states that the investigation into Seth Thomas Vela, 24, of Little Havana, began in 2025 after Dropbox alerted the National Center for Missing and Exploited children to five illicit files uploaded to the cloud storage site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that detectives found at least 13 videos of boys and girls as young as 1 to 3 years old being raped or sexually abused. One of the videos also involved a dog in the abuse, detectives said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they submitted a request to Google for information about the email address the Dropbox account was registered to, which pointed back to Vela, who was associated with at least a half-dozen other email addresses, including \u201cmethlabenjoyer@gmail.com.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another one of those additional email addresses pointed back to Vela\u2019s home in the 200 block of Southwest Sixth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday, police said they raided the home and seized several electronic devices. Vela, they said, \u201cinvoked his rights and refused to answer any questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday morning, Vela was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on 13 counts related to the possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of having images or videos of sexual conduct with animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His bond was listed in jail records 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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandSeth Vela (MDCR) MIAMI \u2014 A Miami man is facing 14 felony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-396955","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\/396955","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=396955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}