Man attacks 68-year-old driver, flees scene
MIAMI — A 38-year-old man was arrested Thursday, months after he allegedly attacked a 68-year-old man as the victim was stopped at a red light in Miami, authorities said.
According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the incident was reported at about 8:50 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2025, in the area of Northwest 32nd Avenue and 36th Street.
Police said the victim told officers that as he was stopped at a red light, a man driving a white GMC pickup truck stopped adjacent to his vehicle, opened the passenger side door of his car and then began yelling at the victim.
The victim claimed the man, later identified by police as David Anselmo Portillo, of Miami, then entered his vehicle and struck him three to four times on the right side of his face and forehead. He also sustained minor abrasions to his right arm that were caused when he tried blocking Portillo’s punches, authorities said.
According to the arrest report, the victim said he did not know Portillo and had not had a prior altercation with him before the attack.
Police said they were able to identify Portillo as the attacker with help from “witness statements, photographic and video evidence and the identification of the suspect vehicle.”
Portillo was taken into custody Thursday and police say he identified himself and his truck in video showing him entering the truck at the red light where the attack occurred, but claimed that he had “no recollection of the incident.”
Portillo faces charges of burglary with assault or battery and battery on a person 65 or older.
As of Friday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”
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