{"id":7444,"date":"2025-10-16T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:24:26","slug":"police-nbc-6-south-florida-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7444\/","title":{"rendered":"Police \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Hialeah have arrested a man accused of climbing onto a rooftop and stealing numerous pigeons, after investigators say surveillance cameras and distinctive tattoos led to his identification.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest report, on\u00a0Sept. 22, around 2:50 a.m., an unknown male, later identified as Lazaro M. Diaz, was captured on CCTV climbing onto the roof of\u00a0a home\u00a0in Hialeah. <\/p>\n<p>While on the roof, the suspect allegedly removed multiple pigeons and placed them inside a bag. <\/p>\n<p>Police noted that additional pigeons, taken from outside of the camera\u2019s view, were kept inside a separate cage.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the surveillance video showed the suspect clearly, including\u00a0distinct tattoos\u00a0that made him identifiable. Through investigative means and prior encounters, police identified the man as Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lazaro-M.-Diaz.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Lazaro M. Diaz\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Lazaro M. Diaz<\/p>\n<p>Officers confirmed the match using body-worn camera footage from previous incidents within the city.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, an officer spotted Diaz loitering near\u00a0East 8th Avenue and East 26th Street, and he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, 54, was charged with burglary and grand theft and transported to the\u00a0Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK).<\/p>\n<p>His charges were later lowered to petty theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Hialeah have arrested a man accused of climbing onto a rooftop and stealing numerous pigeons, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1009,225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-7444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-caught-on-camera","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","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=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}