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• Knife-wielding MMA fighter threatened his mother and ran from ...

  

  Hialeah police say Wednesday morning’s pursuit that interrupted traffic and put schools on lockdown began with a knife-wielding 6-2, 220-pound MMA fighter menacing his mother Tuesday night.When John Chavez found out Iris Chavez filed an ex parte order for his involuntary mental examination, the 30-year-old destroyed her cell phone and glasses while waving around a knife, according to Chavez’s arrest affidavit. Police left that night around 9:30 p.m. and returned Wednesday around 8:15 a.m. to se..

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• Lockdowns Lifted at Hialeah Schools After Police Capture MMA ...

  

  Several Hialeah schools were placed on lockdown Wednesday morning while police searched for an MMA fighter armed with a knife nearby, officials said.Crews responded to Ben Sheppard Elementary School off W. 24th Avenue and 57th Street before 9 a.m.Police say the incident started after a call came in from a nearby home of a man who was involved in a violent domestic dispute.The man was later identified as John Chavez, a known MMA fighter who has a history of mental illness and violence, according ..

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• SLAM Holds Off Hialeah Gardens In Game Of The Week

  

  Luis Garcia was 4-for-4 from the leadoff spot to lead the Titans’ offense. Photo Gallery Wednesday afternoon’s HSBN Miami-Dade Game of the Week featured two clubs in the SLAM Academy Titans and the Hialeah Gardens Gladiators with revamped rosters this 2017 season, as a total of seven freshmen were in the starting lineups. Many of those young players proved themselves in big moments of the spotlight game. Behind the strength of a five-run third inning, the host Titans earned a 6-4 victory at ..

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• Capturan a hombre armado por el que cerraron varias escuelas en ...

  

  Tras varias de horas de intensa acción policial, los agentes de la ciudad de Hialeah capturaron a John Chávez, de 30 años, el luchador de artes marciales que había escapado en la mañana de una “violenta disputa doméstica”. El vocero de la policía, Carl Zogby, dijo al Miami Herald que recibieron una llamada a eso de las 8:15 a.m. de que Chávez estaba “actuando irracionalmente” y había salido corriendo de su casa con un cuchillo de cocina. Zogby agregó que el hombre, con más de seis pies de alt..

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• Luchador de MMA causa el cierre de escuelas en Hialeah

  

  Varias escuelas en  Hialeah fueron cerradas este miércoles 22  de marzo, como medida preventiva, mientras que la policía continuaba la búsqueda de un sospechoso armado con un cuchillo. Varias escuelas de Hialeah cerraron mientras la policía buscaba a un hombre armado Foto: iStock El hombre fue identificado como John Chávez, de 32 años, un luchador de MMA ( artes marciales mixtas) que supuestamente tendría historial de enfermedades mentales. La pol..

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• Graban arresto de madre indocumentada en Hialeah

  

  La escena en que una mujer indocumentada es arrestada en plena calle en Miami tras dejar a su hija en la escuela, está cargada de dramatismo y tensión.Las imágenes obtenidas por Telemundo 51 muestran el momento en que agentes de inmigración se llevaban detenida a Bárbara Liliana Guera,  minutos después de dejar a su hija de 9 años en  a la escuela, la mañana de este miércoles.Su pareja, el joven William Roberto Aragón, grabó en su celular el arresto y nos relata lo ocurrido.“Se me para un oficia..

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• Acusada de robar perfumes en Macy's de Hialeah

  

  Una joven de 23 años enfrenta cargos de robo en mayor cuantía tras un intento de robo en una tienda Macy's de Hialeah.Kathryn Méndez Chinea compareció este martes en una corte de Miami Dade después de ser arrestada el día anterior en la tienda de Macy's ubicada en el Westland Mall.La denuncia indica que Méndez fue sorprendida mientras cargaba en su cartera con varios productos de la tienda, incluyendo pomos de perfume y prendas.La mercancía está valorada en unos $405 dólares.Publicado miércoles ..

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• 17000 AT&T workers in Nevada and California go on strike

  

  Alan Diaz / AP This Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo shows the AT&T sign at a store in Hialeah, Fla. By Tali Arbel, Associated Press Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | 12:35 p.m. NEW YORK — A union representing AT&T workers says about 17,000 employees in California and Nevada have gone on strike. The workers install cable and phone service and work in call centers where customers can phone in with questions and problems. Union local official Sheila Bordeaux says AT&T is asking technicians who ..

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• 'Brazilian butt lift' complications hospitalize 2 women from same clinic

  

  AVENTURA, FL (WSVN/CNN) - Two women were taken to the hospital after they ran into complications undergoing plastic surgery at the same cosmetic center in Florida."I said, 'It has been seven hours., something's wrong I feel it as a mother,'" said Maria Basham, the mother of Crystal Call.Something was wrong with Call, 31, who flew from New York to South Florida last week for a Brazilian butt lift at the Seduction Cosmetic Surgery Center."I went up and said I want to see my daughter. They all bloc..

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• 4 Sentenced in Theft of Data From Lancaster County Gas Pumps

  

  Thirty-seven-year-old Elvis Tavieso, of Hialeah, Florida, pleaded no contest and was given two years in prison. The records also say 34-year-old Lisandro ...

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