{"id":43610,"date":"2017-09-13T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43610"},"modified":"2017-09-13T05:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T05:15:26","slug":"25-arrested-looting-miami-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/25-arrested-looting-miami-irma.html","title":{"rendered":"25 arrested for looting in Miami during, after Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">25 arrested for looting in Miami during, after Irma<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">25 arrested for looting in Miami during, after Irma:- City of Miami officials said Monday they have arrested at least 25 people for looting during and after Hurricane Irma, and offered a stern warning to anyone else thinking about taking advantage of the current situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Miami police Deputy Chief Luis Cabrera said. &#8220;We&#8217;re out there. We&#8217;re vigililant and if you do it, you&#8217;re going to get caught.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado led the media briefing that was also attended by city commissioners assuring residents they and their businesses are safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Local 10 News cameras showed groups looting stores in Fort Lauderdale as Irma was still ravaging South Florida on Sunday. Fort Lauderdale police later apprehended and arrested almost a dozen individuals in the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Around the same time, Miami police caught six looters breaking into shoe stores in the Midtown area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s despicable that anyone would try to take advantage of the fact that we&#8217;re in a vulnerable state,&#8221; Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;You have to be heartless to prey on individuals, businesses and people in this time of need,&#8221; Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo said. &#8220;This is a time for all of us to come together and we, in the cIty of Miami and police department, will not tolerate it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Police added that they remain on elevated alpha\/bravo shirts to keep the city safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Despite the acts of a few criminals and looters, the spirit of Miami is very, very strong.&#8221; Commissioner Ken Russell added. &#8220;I&#8217;m very proud of the residents and businesses that have come together with such a positive attitude.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/hurricane-irma\/25-arrested-for-looting-in-miami-during-and-after-irma<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/25-arrested-looting-miami-irma.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 arrested for looting in Miami during, after Irma 25 arrested for looting in Miami during, after Irma:- City of Miami officials said Monday they have arrested at least 25 people for looting during and after Hurricane Irma, and offered a stern warning to anyone else thinking about taking advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[58671,58672,3284,3351],"class_list":["post-43610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-25-arrested-for-looting-in-miami-during-after-irma","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}