HIALEAH, Fla. – A man whose many tattoos include Tupac Shakur’s “Only God Can Judge Me” appeared before Miami-Dade judges on Thursday and Friday in bond court.
Guillermo Vives was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday held on two cases that Miami-Dade County Circuit Judges Christine Bandin and Milton Hirsch are presiding on, records show.
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Vives, 32, also known as Guillermo Beker-Vives and Guillermo Beker, has been in and out of jail for over a decade in Miami-Dade. His record includes arrests in Hialeah Gardens and Miami.
In 2020, Miami police officers arrested him for domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bandin sentenced Vives to a two-year probation that started in July 2022, but he couldn’t stay out of trouble, records show. Earlier this year, officers accused him of a lewd or lascivious exhibition at a correctional facility.
Early Thursday morning, a homeless man said he had been living in a tent in Hialeah for about three months when Vives broke in, asked him for drugs, and stabbed him, according to police.
Hialeah police officers reported finding Vives — who was out on a Miami-Dade County felony bond for cocaine possession — wielding a knife that he refused to drop.
The crime scene was near the area of Southeast 14 Street and 10 Court, near the Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station, and Florida State Road 112, records show.
Vives was mumbling to himself, according to the police arrest report. Two police officers deployed their Tasers to subdue him, handcuffed him, and arrested him at about 2:20 a.m., according to a police report.
Miami-Dade correctional officers booked Vives at about 4:50 a.m., at TGK. on a warrant for the cocaine possession case and the new case for aggravated battery with a weapon causing great bodily harm, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Records show Hirsch is presiding over the new case.