HIALEAH, Fla. - Hialeah police detectives were able to use social media to track a suspect in a November robbery and carjacking to a man from the Orlando area, according to an arrest warrant. Leer en español Records show deputies with the Lake County Sheriff's Office in central Florida took Axel Lopez Gonzalez, 23, of Davenport, into custody on Dec. 18. He was brought back to South Florida and booked into jail on Friday. According to the Hialeah Police Department, the incident happened the morning of Nov. 16. After a night of drinking with a friend in Miami Beach and North Miami, police said the victim drove to his friend's apartment complex, Pura Vida Hialeah at 3051 W. 16th Ave., to drop him off. Authorities said the victim took his friend up to his seventh-floor apartment ― where an  unknown male  answered. After leaving his friend inside, police said the victim and the unknown man walked back to the victim's car to get the rest of his friend's belongings. The warrant states that the victim was in the driver's seat of his 2014 Toyota 4-Runner  when he was ambushed  by multiple armed suspects. Police said the victim  was hit multiple times, pistol-whipped in the head, and dragged from the driver's seat to the rear seats  as the assailants  attempted to ransack his pockets.  According to the warrant, the victim opened the rear door and jumped out as the suspects gave chase and was confronted at a dead end.

One of the suspects demanded that he get back in the car, police said, telling him in Spanish,  You have to come with us.   (The victim), in fear for his life, relinquished all the property from his pockets and told the subject to take everything,  HPD Detective Tayron Vilorio wrote in the warrant.  The subject ultimately fled the scene on foot when a passerby intervened and (the victim) asked for help calling the police.  Authorities said the suspects took the victim's cellphone, car keys and the SUV. Police later found his cellphone tossed out along Okeechobee Road near West Seventh Avenue. An Apple AirTag pinged just a block away from the crime scene at 1500 W. 29th St., where au


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