Latino cartoonist ends siege at Miami paper

“A cartoonist carrying a toy gun that looked real surrendered to police at the Miami Herald’s building Friday, more than two hours after arriving and demanding to see an editor of the newspaper’s Spanish-language sister paper, police said.

Jose Varela, 50, carried a knife and a black plastic toy gun that resembled a semiautomatic weapon, police said. He was taken to the Miami-Dade County Jail Friday evening. The Miami Herald said he was charged with three counts of aggravated assault.”

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