{"id":8449,"date":"2025-10-17T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:15:18","slug":"hialeah-man-pulls-knife-on-fwc-officer-confronting-him-for-stealing-tylenol-advil-from-publix-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8449\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah man pulls knife on FWC officer confronting him for stealing Tylenol, Advil from Publix: Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/36O5D6LTXFD6NJEA3FUBUF7PGE.jpg\"  width=\"989\" height=\"556\"\/>Edwin Soto (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Police arrested a Hialeah man on two criminal charges on Monday after they said he pulled a knife on and threatened to kill an off-duty state wildlife officer who confronted him for shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/09\/30\/hombre-de-hialeah-apunala-a-oficial-de-la-fwc-que-lo-confronto-por-robar-tylenol-y-advil-en-publix-policia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/09\/30\/hombre-de-hialeah-apunala-a-oficial-de-la-fwc-que-lo-confronto-por-robar-tylenol-y-advil-en-publix-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Hialeah police, the incident happened just after 4:30 p.m. at the Publix at 1585 W. 49th St., next to the Westland Mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the off-duty Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission law enforcement officer saw Edwin Soto, 43, stuffing items into a book bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An arrest report states that the officer displayed his badge in an effort to stop Soto, but Soto exited the store, then pulled a knife on the officer and said \u201cthat he was going to kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said he began walking on West 16th Avenue, where officers detained him. They said they found \u201csix bottles of Advil and three bottles of Tylenol\u201d worth a little less than $190 in his bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrested Soto on charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and petit theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade court records show that Soto has an extensive history of arrests in the county, mainly for drug and theft charges. State <a href=\"https:\/\/pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com\/offenderSearch\/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&amp;DCNumber=M72011&amp;TypeSearch=IR\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com\/offenderSearch\/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&amp;DCNumber=M72011&amp;TypeSearch=IR\">corrections records<\/a> show he served about six months in prison for robbery and heroin possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of late Tuesday morning, Soto was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $8,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM Updated:\u00a0September 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM ExpandEdwin Soto (MDCR) HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-8449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","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=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}