SWAT standoff ends with man detained in North Miami Beach

Eastern Shores residents say they couldn't get home for hours

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – After a standoff involving the SWAT team, North Miami Beach polices detained an Eastern Shores resident Thursday.

The all-clear was given shortly after 7 p.m., allowing residents to return to their homes.

But for more than four hours, residents in the quiet neighborhood were on alert after police received a call about a disturbance at a home on Northeast 169th Street.

Capt. Juan Pinilos said officers received reports that shots had been fired. In the end, there was no evidence that a single shot was fired.

"Nobody was shot," Pinilos told Local 10 News. "No one's hurt."

Officers also reopened an area of North Miami Beach that was causing delays on Sunny Isles Boulevard.

Eastern Shores resident Rod Rodriguez was happy to be able to come back home. 

"It's been a big inconvenience here, just waiting and waiting and waiting," Rodriguez said. "I had to park my car pretty far away, maybe about a mile away."

#BREAKING We're LIVE in North Miami Beach where roads are closed off as police conduct an investigation near Northeast 35th Ave & 169th Street.

Posted by WPLG Local 10 on Thursday, March 21, 2019

Traffic was shutdown at Northeast 35th Avenue and 169th Street until about 7:20 p.m.


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Louis Aguirre is an Emmy-award winning journalist who anchors weekday newscasts and serves as WPLG Local 10’s Environmental Advocate.

The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.