Inset: Giraldo Caraballo (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The area near where Caraballo allegedly threatened a churro seller in Miami, Fla. (Google Maps).
Authorities in Florida have taken a local resident into custody following allegations that he threatened a churro vendor over his business operations, according to law enforcement officials in the Sunshine State.
Giraldo Caraballo, 60, faces a charge of aggravated assault, as reported by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The confrontation took place in early November 2025, near the intersection of Southwest 195th Terrace and 127th Avenue within the South Miami Heights area.
On the specified day, the churro vendor was operating from a trailer when Caraballo, a resident of the vicinity, approached him. This information comes from a criminal complaint and arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime.
“A verbal altercation ensued regarding the sale of churros,” the charging document states. “The situation escalated to the point where the defendant retrieved an aluminum bat from his vehicle.”
After retrieving the bat from his Ford F-250, Caraballo allegedly threatened, “If you are here in fifteen minutes, I am going to kill you like a dog,” while menacingly holding the bat.
The churro vendor told investigators he was “in fear for his life” at the time of the incident, according to the criminal complaint.
Caraballo returned “a short time” later, according to the sheriff’s office. The defendant allegedly told the vendor something to the effect of: “Oh! You are still here? I am coming back.”
After this second interaction, the vendor filed a police report “because he was afraid for his safety,” according to law enforcement.
The defendant was subsequently arrested and transported to a local police station, the sheriff’s office said. There, he was read his Miranda rights in Spanish by way of a form and “invoked his rights and did not talk” about the incident, according to the criminal complaint.
The charging document does not account for the lengthy delay between the initial arrest by police and the charges filed by sheriff’s deputies – but notes that police did not speak with Caraballo about the incident. Another note in the document says there was no officer-worn body camera footage of the arrest.
“The defendant was charged accordingly,” the complaint reads.
Caraballo was detained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and posted $5,000 bond the next day, records show.
There are currently no scheduled court dates in the case, according to Miami-Dade court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
