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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A violent assault on a Miami Beach hotel has led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania man.
According to Miami Beach police, the manager of the Rivera Hotel in South Beach was in a back room when a man, whose head was covered with a towel, slapped him.
The suspect, identified as Tehrron Greene, punched the manager and slammed him against the wall before continuing with the relentless beating. The incident was captured on hotel security cameras on February 12.
Police said Greene was visiting South Florida with two others who had searched the hotel.
Since then, detectives have been looking for him. Police said he did a good job as a detective and some clues on a hotel guest’s Facebook page took them to Greene, who had already returned to Pennsylvania.
(Watch the video from the surveillance camera)
According to Miami Beach police, detectives in the case searched more than 2,000 photos on the public page of a hotel guest before finding what would be a picture of his suspect.
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“The victim deserved it,” police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said of the search efforts.
Greene initially refused to talk to detectives, who also contacted his mother, according to Rodriguez.
Greene eventually called police and reportedly confessed to the beating. He is expected to be extradited back to Miami-Dade County.
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