A dispute over the construction of a fence in Miami-Dade escalated when a man allegedly armed himself with a sword and threatened to shoot a contractor and cut off his head, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n
Alvaro Alejandro Fonseca was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, records show.<\/p>\n
Police said officers were called around 3:18 p.m. to the 1500 block of Southwest 122nd Avenue after receiving a report of a dispute.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, the confrontation began over a gated fence being built next to Fonseca\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n
The contractor told police that the owner of the property had permission from the city to build the fence. He and Fonseca became involved in a verbal dispute that escalated, the report said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Fonseca went inside his residence and armed himself with a sword amid the dispute.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, Fonseca allegedly threatened the contractor, saying he was going to shoot him twice in the head and cut off his head with the sword.<\/p>\n
The contractor told officers he feared for his life and began recording the encounter, police said. He also took a photograph that investigators said showed Fonseca armed with the sword.<\/p>\n
Police said Fonseca was read his Miranda rights and denied making the threats. The arresting officer wrote in the report that Fonseca\u2019s account of what happened was inconsistent.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
His bond was listed as \u201cto be set\u201d in the records provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute over the construction of a fence in Miami-Dade escalated when a man allegedly armed himself with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064],"class_list":["post-434924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434924","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=434924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}