{"id":94278,"date":"2025-12-23T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94278\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:30:06","slug":"video-shows-hialeah-robber-taking-sledgehammer-to-stores-gaming-machines-over-3800-loss-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94278\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows Hialeah robber taking sledgehammer to store\u2019s gaming machines over $3,800 loss: Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 New video shows the man police say was a raging robber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/19\/rage-over-gambling-loss-at-hialeah-food-store-leads-to-terrifying-sledgehammer-robbery-cops-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/19\/rage-over-gambling-loss-at-hialeah-food-store-leads-to-terrifying-sledgehammer-robbery-cops-say\/\">taking a sledgehammer<\/a> to a Hialeah food store\u2019s gaming machines in a fit over losing $3,800 earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before that, police said the video shows Suniel Arzola, 46, forcing a terrified store clerk into a bathroom after snatching her cellphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the crime happened on Nov. 30 at the RC La Atenas Market &amp; Smoke Shop, located in a warehouse area at the corner of East 10th Avenue and 32nd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, surveillance video helped detectives identify Arzola: It showed a \u201cbirthmark or burn mark\u201d on his right hand seen during his gambling, the robbery and by officers during his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said footage also showed Arzola leaving on a bicycle and dropping something in the parking lot. The report states that a few minutes later, video showed that a woman, later identified as Arzola\u2019s girlfriend, arrived in a Dodge Ram pickup to retrieve the item.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said on Dec. 2, they saw the truck, registered to Arzola, parked at a warehouse at 4813 E. 10th Court. Police said they later determined that Arzola owned the warehouse, which is less than a mile away from the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they found Arzola and his girlfriend at his warehouse on Thursday and took them both in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arzola, also accused of an escape attempt while at Hialeah Hospital after being taken into custody, remained jailed on a $15,000 bond as of Tuesday.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 New video shows the man police say was a raging robber taking a sledgehammer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-94278","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\/94278","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=94278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}