MIAMI (WSVN) - A SWAT situation in a Miami neighborhood ended with authorities arresting a suspected armed carjacker.
“Apartment 304 come out with your hands up,” a deputy is heard saying over a megaphone.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Special Response Team established a perimeter around an apartment complex located near Southwest 27th Avenue and Southwest 26th Street early Wednesday morning. They blocked off the road with their armored trucks during the early morning raid, terrifying neighbors.
“I just woke up to the police radio and the gun fighting and ‘I’m like wait what?’, said Daniel Nino .
“At 6a.m. it looks like a banging,” said Sirle . “You know very scared.”
Flash bangs were heard in the area as they ordered the suspect to come out of his unit.
Deputies and detectives with the Gang Unit said they were serving a search warrant for a man named Tyler Robinson, who was wanted in connection with an armed car jacking. Officials were also able to recover a firearm possibly involved.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, last July an Uber Eats driver was attempting to deliver food in Southwest Miami-Dade as he was approaching the door four men walked towards him and his car, one of them with a gun.
The victim hid while the four suspects drove off with his car. The car was later found and Crime Scene Technicians processed it for fingerprints, which is what led detectives to Robinson’s residence several months later.
Now, residents are frightened by the ordeal.
“You deal with people everyday. You don’t who’s who. Everybody is behind closed doors it can be whatever so you really don’t wants going to happen,” said Nino.
Detectives have not stated if the other three suspects involved were also apprehended. Robinson is expected to go before a judge Wednesay for his bail hearing.
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