{"id":420723,"date":"2026-10-06T23:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:48:20","slug":"florida-keys-man-accused-of-attempted-murder-arrested-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420723\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Keys man accused of attempted murder arrested in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armando Lopez, 53, of Key Largo, was arrested in Mexico after failing to appear for his trial on attempted murder charges in Florida.<\/p>\n

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A Florida Keys man accused of attempted murder was captured in another country.<\/p>\n

The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced on Tuesday, Oct. 6, that Armando Lopez, 53, from Key Largo was arrested by U.S. authorities in Mexico. <\/p>\n

The Sheriff\u2019s Office said Lopez failed to appear for the remainder of his trial for attempted murder and other crimes in Plantation Key on Friday, Oct. 2.<\/p>\n

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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Armando Lopez, 53, of Key Largo, was arrested in Mexico after failing to appear for his trial on attempted murder charges in Florida.<\/p>\n

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Lopez was tracked to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and the Sheriff\u2019s Office contacted the U.S. Marshals Service that continued tracking Lopez in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to the hardworking men and women of the Sheriff\u2019s Office, the U.S. Marshals Service, and all of our law enforcement partners for getting this dangerous criminal off the streets,\u201d Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armando Lopez, 53, of Key Largo, was arrested in Mexico after failing to appear for his trial on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166125,28,30,166126,166124,29,8597,4392,81258,1933,162,660,166128,166127,2631,23688,26002,221,189],"class_list":["post-420723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-armando-lopez","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys-man","tag-florida-keys-man-accused-of-attempted-murder-arrested-in-mexico","tag-florida-news","tag-friday","tag-mexico","tag-monroe-county-sheriff","tag-murder","tag-oct","tag-office","tag-other-crime","tag-plantation-key","tag-sheriff","tag-u-s-marshals-service","tag-up-to-date","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420723","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=420723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}