A man has been arrested in connection with two separate stabbing incidents at the government center in Miami that left two people hospitalized, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Joel Sanchez-Abreu, 37, was arrested Monday on two counts of aggravated battery, Miami-Dade jail records showed.<\/p>\n
The first incident happened around 12:30 p.m. on July 11 in a courtyard at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center at 111 Northwest 1st Street.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, surveillance video showed the victim sitting at a bench in the courtyard near the fruit museum when the suspect approached him several times.<\/p>\n
The victim said the man asked him for money to buy drugs but he refused his requests and the suspect became upset, the report said.<\/p>\n
A short time later, the victim said the suspect rode past on a bicycle and stabbed him once in the center of his back before fleeing, the report said.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center for treatment.<\/p>\n
The second incident happened the afternoon of Sept. 4, as a group was near the water fountain benches at the government center when the suspect approached and sat with them, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
The suspect got into a physical altercation with the victim and stabbed the victim in the left shoulder blade before he fled on a bicycle, the report said.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment and a portion of the blade, believed to be from a small box cutter, was found in his shoulder blade.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Sanchez-Abreu was found riding a bicycle near 1st Street and Northwest 3rd Avenue and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
He gave a full confession to both incidents and was booked into jail, the reports said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection with two separate stabbing incidents at the government center in Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-400573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400573","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=400573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}