MIAMI — A 29-year-old man was back behind bars on Tuesday after police officers arrested him over an alleged violent breakdown in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood just days after he was released from jail, records show.

Witnesses reported that an “irate” man caused mayhem on a busy Monday morning at the Starbucks at Mary Brickell Village, at 901 Southeast Miami Ave.

The man was “yelling at customers inside the store, scaring the employees, as he threw merchandise on the floor ... jumped onto the countertop ... grabbed a chair from inside the property and smashed the front glass door,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

A security guard injured his arm while trying to stop the man, who police officers later identified as Erickwoody Charles, of Downtown Miami, according to the police arrest report.

“Upon my arrival, [Charles] was ... lying on the roof of a passersby car ... a nearby truck owner reached me and showed me his truck bed’s cover was broken ... and had footsteps caused by [Charles] climbing on his truck,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Police officers arrested Charles at 8 a.m. on Monday at Southeast Ninth Street and Brickell Plaza, and fire rescue personnel took Charles to the hospital, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade County corrections booked Charles shortly after 1:20 p.m. on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Charles, also known as Erick Charles, faced charges of battery and two counts of criminal mischief, and he had been out on a felony bond on a warrant case for grand theft and burglary, according to county inmate and court records.

Miami police officers had arrested Charles on July 19th. Miami-Dade prosecutors filed the grand theft and burglary case on July 20th, a judge set his bond at $5,000, and he was released on his own recognizance on Aug. 21st, according to court records.

Charles has an arrest record in Miami-Dade that goes back to a marijuana possession case when he was 19 years old. Court records also show he had convictions for misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and resisting arrest in Miami Beach when he was 27.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Miguel M. de la O was presiding over this year’s two pending cases.

Court docket record in grand theft and burglary case

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