{"id":399571,"date":"2026-09-14T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399571\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:26:13","slug":"man-accused-of-raping-18-year-old-he-met-on-miami-bound-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399571\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of raping 18-year-old he met on Miami-bound cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 11:23 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM<\/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\/JAP3QQLFG5G4DJ2QYC6EDKAYPU.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Cody Gray (MDCR\/WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A man from central Florida is facing a sexual battery charge in Miami-Dade County after authorities said he raped an 18-year-old woman whom he met in a cruise ship nightclub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/14\/acusan-a-hombre-de-violar-a-joven-de-18-anos-que-conocio-en-crucero-con-destino-a-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/14\/acusan-a-hombre-de-violar-a-joven-de-18-anos-que-conocio-en-crucero-con-destino-a-miami\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cody Gray, 34, of Maitland, was taken into custody after the ship \u2015 which authorities did not identify in an arrest report \u2015 returned to PortMiami on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Gray met the victim early Saturday morning at sea after she had had a drink at the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that Gray gave the woman \u201cthree additional drinks\u201d as they \u201csocialized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the victim told Gray that she did not want to have sex with him, but, while drunk, the two went back to Gray\u2019s cabin, where authorities said he raped her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe victim was unconscious after the intercourse, when her parents were located and directed to (Gray\u2019s) cabin,\u201d the report states. \u201cThe victim advised the ship staff and her parents that she did not recall the details of what occurred inside (the) cabin but reiterated that she never consented to have any sexual activity with (Gray).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gray, appearing in bond court on Sunday, was ordered held without bond pending an additional hearing. In addition to the sexual battery charge, he also faces a charge of giving alcohol to a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/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 14, 2026 at 11:23 AM Updated:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCody Gray (MDCR\/WPLG) MIAMI \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-399571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571","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=399571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}