MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Police officers arrested William Roa shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the lobby of his apartment in South Beach over alleged crimes in March, records show.

And if what he was wearing was any indication, it was likely that he was also feeling the pain of Colombia’s elimination from the FIFA World Cup while behind bars.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Roa, 40, shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Police officers accused Roa of crimes on March 5 at 1400 Washington Ave., after he walked out of Lost Weekend, a pub at 218 Española Way, and found a parking citation on his motorcycle, according to police.

Roa followed a parking officer for about 20 minutes — “verbally threatening to harm” him — before surveillance video showed him approach the officer’s assigned 2025 Ford Ranger pickup truck to “slash both driver’s side tires with a sharp metal object,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Roa “has a criminal history of 14 arrests in Miami-Dade County, to include carrying a concealed firearm, battery, obstruction, and resisting,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Court records show Roa hasn’t been convicted of a crime in Miami-Dade. On Wednesday afternoon, he faced two new charges: Aggravated assault of an official employee, a third-degree felony, and criminal mischief with prejudice, also a third-degree felony, according to court records. His bond was $3,500.

Miami Beach police officers arrest man accused of crimes over parking ticket

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