{"id":397313,"date":"2026-09-11T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397313\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:14:10","slug":"video-shows-north-miami-officers-finding-hungry-children-5-and-7-locked-out-by-mothers-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397313\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows North Miami officers finding hungry children, 5 and 7, locked out by mothers, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Newly-released body camera footage shows North Miami police officers encountering two young children who authorities said were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/10\/2-women-arrested-after-young-children-found-running-down-north-miami-street-unattended-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/10\/2-women-arrested-after-young-children-found-running-down-north-miami-street-unattended-police-say\/\">locked out of their home by their parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/11\/video-muestra-a-agentes-de-north-miami-encontrando-a-ninos-hambrientos-de-5-y-7-anos-dejados-afuera-por-sus-madres-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/11\/video-muestra-a-agentes-de-north-miami-encontrando-a-ninos-hambrientos-de-5-y-7-anos-dejados-afuera-por-sus-madres-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened on Wednesday near Northeast Seventh Avenue and Northeast 132nd Street, according to their arrest report from the North Miami Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said an officer responded to the intersection at just before 6:30 p.m. after a Miami-Dade County Public Schools officer spotted the two children, 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, running down the street alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the children had gotten hungry and were trying to get food at a nearby Publix store after their mothers, LaToya Garland, 40, and Mikequisha Gordan, 36, forced them outside to play and locked them out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said after repeated knocks at the door, they were concerned that the women were having a medical emergency and got a building employee to let them in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There, police said they found Garland and Gordan unconscious on a sofa in the living room, appearing to be impaired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two were arrested on charges of child abuse with no great bodily harm. The Florida Department of Children and Families is now involved.<\/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=\"Rosh Lowe\" 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\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/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\/09\/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:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM Updated:\u00a0September 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Newly-released body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-397313","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\/397313","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=397313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}