{"id":406163,"date":"2026-09-21T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406163\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:06:08","slug":"mri-technician-charged-with-sexual-battery-of-patient-in-port-st-lucie-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406163\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI technician charged with sexual battery of patient in Port St. Lucie, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An MRI technician was arrested in Port St. Lucie after being accused of sexually battering a patient, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Cruz, 42, was charged with sexual battery.<\/p>\n<p>According to Port St. Lucie Police, on Sept. 14, detectives arrived at HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital after hospital staff reported that a patient said she was sexually assaulted while she was undergoing an MRI the day before.<\/p>\n<p>When detectives met with hospital staff, they learned that the patient was given medication before getting the MRI that made her drowsy.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, it was determined that Cruz was the MRI technician who was assigned to the procedure, and video obtained by detectives showed him leaving the MRI room after the victim and throwing away materials.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to get the materials, and when it was tested, it returned positive results for male semen.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after the incident was reported, Cruz was arrested in Brevard County.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is a traveling technician and has been working at the hospital since Aug. 24. He was hired by a third-party agency.<\/p>\n<p>HCA Florida St. Lucie is cooperating with police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MRI technician was arrested in Port St. Lucie after being accused of sexually battering a patient, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-406163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406163","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=406163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}