MIAMI — A 42-year-old man appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Thursday after police officers accused him of child abuse in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.
Police officers arrested Alan Zegarra on Wednesday after questioning him for domestic violence that he admitted was related to alcohol abuse, according to a police arrest report.
In a case on July 22, Zegarra admitted to drinking Four Loko and said the alcoholic drinks later prompted him to feel “very, very irate,” a Miami police officer wrote in the arrest report.
Zegarra was “at risk of being struck by vehicles” while riding an electric scooter on West Flagler Street and 22nd Avenue when his wife used his cell phone to track him down and arrive in a car with their two sons to try to help him get home, according to police.
Zegarra shouted profanities and threatened to kill them in Spanish when he opened the car’s front passenger door, pulled one of their sons out of the car, and beat him while the other son intervened at about 1:20 a.m. at Northwest 22 Avenue and Fifth Street, according to the Miami police report.
Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a case against Zegarra on Thursday for felony child abuse with no harm and four misdemeanors of battery and assault, according to county court records. A judge ordered him to stay away from his wife and two sons. His bond was $2,003.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield was set to preside over the case. Zegarra has an arrest history that includes grand theft in 2016 in Aventura and arrests in Miami Beach going back to an alcohol-related municipal ordinance violation in 2003.
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