Nearly a year after a clerk was marched at gunpoint to the back of a Gladeview smoke shop, Miami-Dade detectives say they have a third suspect in custody.
The latest arrest, made Thursday, is tied to an armed holdup on July 6, 2025, at a neighborhood store in northwest Miami-Dade. Investigators say that robbery ended with a terrified employee forced into a back room while the shop was cleaned out at gunpoint.
Latest arrest
Detectives on Thursday took a third person into custody in connection with the case, according to WPLG Local 10. The station reports that law enforcement has not released the suspect’s name or public booking details, citing the ongoing investigation.
For now, that leaves the newest suspect in a kind of legal limbo: under arrest, but officially unnamed.
What detectives say about the July 2025 robbery
Investigators have previously tied the case to a July 6, 2025, armed robbery at General Smoke Shop in Gladeview, at 2975 NW 62nd St. Booking records and police reports from that period show that two 18-year-olds, Malik Jacari Crossley and Corey Lanard Hayes Jr., were arrested in August 2025 on armed-robbery charges…