Andrew & Tristan Tate’s arrests in Miami follow year of controversy in S. Florida
Just outside the James L. Knight Center in the heart of Miami, video shows infamous social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate being handcuffed and carted off by federal agents Saturday in the latest chapter of their year-long stay in South Florida.
The U.S. Marshals Service in South Florida arrested the brothers, who’ve received billions of views online and are known for “teaching” men how to be more dominant, on a sealed warrant, the agency said. The U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service announced it would be pursuing new charges against the pair for rapes that allegedly occurred between July 2010 and August 2017.
TMZ reported that the brothers were arrested just before a bare-knuckle boxing event at the Knight Center, 400 SE Second Ave., that Andrew was going to co-host.
Andrew, 39, is facing seven new counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offenses relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Tristan, 38, is facing one new count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
“These charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police and bring the total number of alleged victims in this case to seven,” said Malcolm McHaffie, head of the Special Crime Division at the Crown Prosecution Service.
History of trouble in South Florida
The Tate brothers, dual U.S. and British citizens, were arrested in Romania in 2022 in connection to an investigation of sexual exploitation. However, during that case, which eventually fell through, they were allowed to leave the country.
Within hours, Andrew and Tristan flew on a private jet from Bucharest to Fort Lauderdale.
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President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state’s two most powerful residents, both said at the time they were in the dark on the brothers’ spontaneous destination decision.
DeSantis verbally rebuffed their arrival, saying, “Florida is not a place where you’re welcome with that type of conduct. … I don’t know how it came to this.”
UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched an a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew as “Unwanted in Miami.”
They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
The brothers had once visited Miami in 2023, boasting the city was for rich people, according to one of their online videos.
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In January, the brothers made headlines when a viral video showed the pair partying with influencers Nick Fuentes, Clavicular, Sneako, Myron Gaines and Justin Waller. blasting Kanye West’s controversial song “Heil Hitler,” inside Miami Beach’s Vendôme nightclub.
The Greater Miami Jewish Federation condemned the actions, three employees were fired, and the nightclub apologized for the “deeply offensive and unacceptable” actions.
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Not first U.K. criminal charges
U.K. authorities had previously charged the brothers with 21 charges after allegations from 2012.
Andrew and Tristan Tate will appear in Miami federal court, a formality in the extradition process but can take weeks if the suspect chooses to fight the extradition.
Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, told the AP his clients were innocent of the charges.
“They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure these guys never get their day in court,” McBride said. “We are confident that once a competent judge sees the facts, and once the Department of Justice confronts this egregious abuse of its own authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate will walk free.”
This story was originally published July 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM.
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