A Florida man has been arrested and accused of posing as a security guard in order to gain entrance to Taylor Swift ’s recent Eras Tour concert held at Hard Rock Stadium.
The man, identified as 44-year-old Ivan Mariotti, has been charged with falsely impersonating an officer and interference with a sporting or entertainment event.
On Friday (October 18), Miami-Dade police were notified around 8:30pm by actual security that there was a man, later identified as Mariotti, “dressed in a suit wearing a badge over his neck, near the floor/field area of the venue,” according to news outlet WLPG Local 10.
Arrest records state that when authorities arrived on scene, they discovered Mariotti and escorted him to the stadium’s tunnel area for questioning.
Mariotti, who was identified as being an Uber driver by authorities, claimed “that he was hired by four women to work as a security guard and he escorted said women onto (the) property and to their respective seats.”
Mariotti told police he did not have a ticket to Swift’s Eras Tour concert and instead got into the venue because he was part of security.