Man punched 74-year-old city worker on South Miami basketball court

Police in South Miami have charged a man who allegedly struck a 74-year-old city employee during a dispute on a basketball court. According to Miami-Dade jail records, 21-year-old Nicholas Adrian Pineyro was taken into custody Monday on suspicion of resisting an officer without using force and battery against an individual 65 years of age or older. The claimed incident took place at the Gibson Bethel Community Center, located at 5800 Southwest 66th Street in South Miami, at approximately 10:40 a.m.

Pineyro was playing basketball on the court when he got into a verbal dispute with the 74-year-old guy, who told him four times that the court was exclusively for pickleball that day, according to an arrest report. According to the report, Pineyro lost his temper and punched the employee in the face, causing him to lose his spectacles and sustain facial bruises. According to the complaint, Pineyro fled on foot when Assistant Chief of Police Larry Corbin, who just so happened to be there, ordered him to halt. A moment later, Pineyro was discovered and taken into jail by an officer. After being arrested, Pineyro appeared before a judge on Tuesday, was given a $3,000 bail, and was instructed to avoid contact with the accused victim.