Troubled man leaves bloody victim, damaged van, shattered glass outside Miami bar: Police

MIAMI – Darwin Silva was born in Honduras. He turned 21 in January, and he is troubled and homeless in Miami.

That is how a police officer described Silva in a report detailing how witnesses feared he had turned violent and destructive outside of a bar in Little Havana.

“You can’t do this to me,” Silva said in Spanish during the arrest on Monday night, according to police.

Court records show Silva did not have a criminal record in Miami-Dade County before August, but he has been arrested four times since.

Miami-Dade deputies arrested Silva for petit theft on Aug. 28 and battery on law enforcement on Dec. 22. Hialeah officers also arrested him for possession of a controlled substance on Oct. 29.

County inmate records show correctional deputies booked Silva shortly after 8 a.m., on Tuesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He had swelling and bruises on his face.

According to the police arrest report, a police officer who was on patrol at about 10 p.m., on Monday, saw Silva fistfighting a man outside of the Capri Bar, at Southwest 17 Court and First Street.

Witnesses told the police officer the other man was defending himself after Silva had used rocks to shatter the bar’s glass door, threatened to hit a woman, and damaged a white 2024 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500.

The man, who was bleeding, had a swollen lip and a bite mark on his arm, police said. He reported Silva had threatened him with what appeared to be a knife, according to the police arrest report.

Police officers later found a box cutter in a trash bin nearby, and pieces of rocks near the shattered glass at the bar and in the parked van that belonged to a witness, according to the police report.

A Miami police officer reported meeting with a man who recorded five videos of Silva on Monday night when county court records show he was on probation for the cases in Hialeah and Miami-Dade.