{"id":106233,"date":"2026-01-20T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:43:08","slug":"new-york-city-man-accused-of-selling-fake-tickets-at-college-football-playoff-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106233\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City man accused of selling fake tickets at College Football Playoff National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">New York City<\/a> was arrested outside Hard Rock Stadium ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/miami-hurricanes-lose-indiana-cfp-title-game-hard-rock-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Football Playoff National Championship game<\/a> on Monday when he was accused of selling a woman fake tickets.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> deputy was approached by a woman who said that while she was outside the stadium trying to buy tickets to the game and was approached by two men who said they would sell her tickets.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men, who was identified as Eddie Hudson, of New York City, offered the victim two tickets for $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cbsmiami-eddie-hudson-1.png#.png\" alt=\"cbsmiami-eddie-hudson-1.png \" height=\"777\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Eddie Hudson<\/p>\n<p>                Miami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>At that point the victim said she sent the money to Hudson through Venmo, according to the arrest report. The unknown man then sent her a fake ticket photo and then fled into the crowd to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report stated that the victim then tried to verify the ticket through Ticketmaster, and that&#8217;s when Hudson tried to walk away from the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson was apprehended by fans outside the stadium until police could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with third-degree grand theft. In court on Tuesday he was given a bond of $2,500 and was ordered to stay away from Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/university-of-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">University of Miami Hurricanes<\/a> came up short in the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Monday night. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/sports\/miami-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami Hurricanes<\/a>, which were playing in their first national title since 2001, lost the game 27-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from New York City was arrested outside Hard Rock Stadium ahead of the College Football Playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11590,33418,303,48101,9,24,55,54,56,17998],"class_list":["post-106233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-crime","tag-miami-gardens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}