{"id":433000,"date":"2026-10-20T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433000\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:18:07","slug":"hialeah-police-warn-of-phone-scammers-pretending-to-be-officers-demanding-money-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433000\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah police warn of phone scammers pretending to be officers, demanding money \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hialeah Police Department is warning of a phone scam targeting people across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say scammers are calling and pretending to be police officers, claiming victims have outstanding warrants, pending cases, or unpaid bonds.<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Der9jGfHRiZ\/?mdxt=MXFpMmp0MWM0amgwcQ%3D%3D&#038;img_index=2\n<\/p>\n<p>In some cases they\u2019re even using real officer names, badge numbers, and fake caller ID information to appear legitimate, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police stress they will never call and demand money from you to avoid an arrest, and urge anyone who gets one of these calls to hang up and report it at 305-687-2525.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hialeah Police Department is warning of a phone scam targeting people across the city. Investigators say scammers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-433000","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\/433000","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=433000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}