PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Pembroke Pines police officers arrested a Broward County Public Schools employee on Friday at a high school for the sexual battery of a minor in Miami-Dade County, police said.

According to the Miami Police Department, a victim reported two men gave him alcohol and forced him to perform a sex act with them when he was a 17-year-old boy in August at an apartment in the area of North Bayshore Drive and 17 Street.

Detectives identified one of the two men as Joseph Justice Livan, a security monitor at West Broward High School, and the victim, who is not related to the school where Livan works, recognized him, police said.

The victim told a detective that after the sexual assault Livan, 27, and the man gave him a ride home and told him that they would kill him if he told anyone what happened, police said.

Police officers responded to the high school, at 500 NW 209 Ave., on Friday, in Pembroke Pines, arrested Livan, and took him to the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, police said.

According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office inmate records, Livan had a hold on a warrant for his arrest, and he was awaiting extradition to Miami-Dade County to face charges.

Capt. Adam Feiner, a spokesman for the Pembroke Pines Police Department, asked parents to be “aware of who their children are communicating with through social media and on their cell phones.”

Feiner asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call the Pembroke Pines Police Department at 954-431-2200, or the Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477, or the Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.

With the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells headed towards its exciting conclusion, we can also begin to turn our attention to the second and final leg of the Sunshine Double: the Miami Open presented by Itaú.

Main-draw play in Miami kicks off on Tuesday, March 18 with the year’s fourth WTA 1000 title on the line. The best of the best on the Hologic WTA Tour will test their skills in Hard Rock Stadium, home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.

Over 8.9 million dollars is up for grabs at the outdoor hard-court event. The singles champion will take home $1.12 million, along with 1,000 precious PIF WTA Ranking points and one of the WTA’s most prestigious trophies.

Here are the key facts you should keep front of mind about the 2025 Miami Open — and keep this post flagged for updates as the tournament edges even closer:

Miami: Draws | Scores | Order of play

Main-Draw Start Date: Tuesday, March 18
Singles Final: Saturday, March 29, not before 3 p.m.
Doubles Final: Sunday, March 30 at 12:30 p.m.
Qualifying Dates: Sunday, March 16 – Monday, March 17
Main-Draw Ceremony: Sunday, March 16 at 12 noon
Singles Main-Draw Size: 96 players (including 12 qualifiers and 8 wild cards, with first-round byes for the 32 seeded players)
Doubles Main-Draw Size: 32 teams
Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4)

And here are some key storylines to think about as play gets rolling in Southeast Florida:

• World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will aim to capture her first Miami Open title this season. Sabalenka has won many of the tour’s most prestigious hard-court tournaments, including three Grand Slam titles on this surface, but she has never advanced beyond the Miami quarterfinals in six appearances.
• World No. 2 Iga Swiatek, on the other hand, won the Miami title in 2022. That year, she completed the Sunshine Double by winning Indian Wells and Miami consecutively. She is one of four women to pull off the Sunshine Double in singles, along with Stefanie Graf (1994 and 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016).
• Elena Rybakina nearly joined that list in 2023, winning that year’s Indian Wells title and making it all the way to the Miami final before losing to Petra Kvitova. Rybakina has come achingly close at Miami twice in a row, also finishing as runner-up to Danielle Collins in 2024. The Kazakh is 10-2 in Miami over the last two years.
• Coming into her home event, World No. 3 Coco Gauff seeks her first Miami Open title as well. The Floridian started the year 9-0 (leading the United States to the United Cup team title and reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals) but will seek to improve upon a 2-3 record in her last five matches.
• Danielle Collins, another Floridian, returns to Miami as the defending champion. Collins won the first WTA 1000 title of her career here last year, kickstarting a 15-match winning streak that included another title at WTA 500 Charleston the following week.
• Petra Kvitova, who won the Miami Open title two years ago, will also be back — this time as a wild card in her return from maternity leave. Former World No. 2 Kvitova, who gave birth to son Petr last July, will play the third event of her comeback after opening losses in Austin and Indian Wells.
• Victoria Azarenka will contest this year’s event as a three-time Miami champion (2009, 2011 and 2016). She and Venus Williams are tied for the third-most Miami Open singles titles, trailing only Serena Williams (8) and Stefanie Graf (5) — all of them are former World No. 1 players.

Miami ranking points and prize money
First round: 10 points | $23,760
Second round: 35 points | $35,260
Third round: 65 points | $60,400
Round of 16: 120 points | $103,225
Quarterfinals: 215 points | $189,075
Semifinals: 390 points | $332,160
Finalist: 650 points | $597,890
Champion: 1000 points | $1,124,380

Stay tuned for more updates!

MIAMI – A 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault case from 2014 after DNA evidence linked him to the crime, authorities confirmed Thursday.

Julio Cesar Alvarenga was taken into custody Wednesday at his Miami home and faces charges including kidnapping, sexual battery, false imprisonment, strong-arm robbery, and criminal mischief, jail records show.

Investigators said the attack happened on the morning of Jan. 1, 2014.

The victim told Miami police she was walking to work along Northwest 12th Avenue near 30th Street when a man, who officers identified as Alvarenga, began following her.

Police said the victim tried to get away after Alvarenga told her he wanted to be with her. Shortly after, they said he grabbed her purse and glasses, forced her into a wooded area, and raped her.

She told police that Alvarenga covered her mouth to silence her cries and held her against her will for an hour and a half, according to an arrest report.

Police said surveillance video captured Alvarenga at the time, but the case remained unsolved until this January, when DNA collected from the victim’s rape kit finally yielded a match.

As of Thursday, Alvarenga is being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.