MIAMI – According to an arrest report released on Monday, police officers described Frank Ivan Suarez-Gonzalez as the Miami roommate from hell.
The conflict started when Suarez-Gonzalez, 24, allegedly ate someone else’s food without permission at a house with roommates in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood.
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Police officers arrested Suarez-Gonzalez on Wednesday and Friday after it all devolved into violence at the house in the area of Northwest 35 Street and Third Avenue.
On Wednesday, Suarez-Gonzalez approached a bunk bed and “grabbed” a roommate by the leg, pulled, attacked, and “landed a strike” on the neck, as the landlord tried to separate the two, according to the report.
When police officers arrived, Suarez-Gonzalez identified himself as his father. He went to jail and when he appeared in Miami-Dade bond court on Thursday, the judge ordered him to stay away from the roommate.
On Friday, police officers reported Suarez-Gonzalez returned to the house shouting vengeful expletives — swinging “a black axe with a stainless steel-looking top” — and “striking the top of the bedframe” while trying to injure the roommate that he was supposed to stay away from.
Police officers reported that while beating up his roommate, Suarez-Gonzalez used “a rear naked choke,” and allegedly shouted in Spanish, “You are not calling the police again!”
Two victims reported they managed to get away from him and run out of the house, but Suarez-Gonzalez jumped into a 2021 silver Toyota Rav 4 with the axe in hand, followed them, and nearly ran over his roommate.
According to police, the two victims returned to the property, and after a next-door neighbor warned them that Suarez-Gonzalez was coming back, they secured the doors and hid in a bedroom.
Police officers reported Suarez-Gonzalez used the axe to damage both the front and back doors and to break several windows and the security camera’s mount. The victim couldn’t call 911 because Suarez-Gonzalez had stolen his cell phone during the attack.
According to the police report, the victim later told police officers he was “in fear for his life the entire time” and thought Suarez-Gonzalez wanted to kill him.
Suarez-Gonzalez was driving when a Miami police officer stopped him at Northwest Fifth Avenue and 34 Street and saw the black axe in the footwell of the front passenger seat and the cell phone he had stolen from the roommate he attacked in the front middle cup holder, according to police.
During an interrogation at the police department, Suarez-Gonzalez identified himself again as his father, just as he had done on Wednesday, according to detectives.
Correctional officers booked him again on Friday. This time he was facing 13 charges. When he appeared in bond court on Saturday, the judge ordered him to stay away from the two victims and the house again.
Correctional officers were holding Suarez-Gonzalez without bond on the charge of armed burglary with assault or battery. A judge set the bond for the other 12 charges at $48,000.
The list of 12 charges: Aggravated stalking, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery, battery by strangulation, strongarm robbery, attempted armed burglary, criminal mischief, tampering with a witness, victim, or informant in a capital or life felony investigation, tampering with physical evidence, violating a protective injunction, and two counts of providing false identification.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda was set to preside over the case. Records show Suarez-Gonzalez’s next hearings for arraignment and pre-trial detention are set for May 15.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.