Miami Beach police and the FBI are investigating a bank robbery.
Miami Beach police
A bank robbery-related investigation has shut a section of Collins Avenue in Miami Beach ahead of Wednesday afternoon’s rush hour.
Collins Avenue is closed in both directions between 21st and 23rd streets for the investigation until further notice, according to Miami Beach police. The Miami Beach Regional Library is in this area.
UPDATE: Collins Avenue remains closed in both directions between 21 to 23 Street. Please use an alternate route. pic.twitter.com/oKjvOBB35G
Police say the investigation, which they’re doing with the FBI’s South Florida Violent Crimes Task Force, is related to a bank robbery that occurred Wednesday nearly two miles away at TD Bank, 930 W. 41st St. There were no reported injuries.
Drivers should avoid the area and seek alternate routes.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription