Gunman Arrested at Miami Herald Building
MIAMI (AP) — A gun-wielding cartoonist dressed in camouflage surrendered to police at The Miami Herald’s building Friday afternoon, more than two hours after arriving and demanding to see an editor of the newspaper’s Spanish-language sister paper, police said.
No injuries were reported.
Police spokesman Delrish Moss said the man, a cartoonist who “says he’s been censored by the Herald,” was carrying what appeared to be a machine gun.
Man with submachine gun arrested after standoff at Miami Herald
A 3 ½-hour standoff at The Miami Herald building ended without violence this afternoon as Miami police officers arrested a man — dressed in camouflage and carrying a submachine gun — who barricaded himself in the office of the top editor of El Nuevo Herald.
The standoff ended about 2:20 p.m. with the man in custody, police said. No shots were fired, police said.
Employees identified the man as El Nuevo Herald freelance cartoonist Jose Varela.