Authorities stated that a 26-year-old man choked his stepson inside the Miami Springs hotel room where they had been residing on Wednesday.
Luis Carlos Almendarez-Gonzalez and his wife, her son, and numerous additional children they had together reside in multiple locations, per his arrest report.
Luis Carlos Almendarez-Gonzalez Was Arrested:
According to Miami Springs police, there had been a disturbance, so on Wednesday afternoon, cops were summoned to the hotel.
The victim reportedly came up to the hotel manager and a staff member, gripping his neck, and informed them that his stepfather had “choked him out inside the room,” according to the report. They verified that he had redneck.
After the victim sought to get some food stamp cards for his mother, officers spoke with him and learned that his stepfather had grabbed him by the neck and strangled him for a brief period.
According to the police, the victim’s mother claimed that she had left the room to pack her bags and move hotels to avoid her husband, but she had left her food stamp card in the room.
According to the report, the oldest child in the room at the time of the incident was afraid to talk about it because Almendarez-Gonzalez was taking revenge. However, he did confirm that he saw Almendarez-Gonzalez putting his hands around the victim’s neck because of the food stamp cards.
Almendarez-Gonzalez denied putting his hands around the boy’s neck. Still, he did acknowledge having a verbal argument with his wife and being upset with her kid for “disrespecting him,” according to the police.
The name and precise address of the hotel were withheld from the police record, which also omitted the boy’s age.
Almendarez-Gonzalez was taken into custody on suspicion of severe child abuse and strangling as a form of violence.
He was still detained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday afternoon, and his bond was still pending.
