By: A cartoonist arrested after brandishing a toy gun at The Miami Herald building has been released from jail.
Jose Varela, 50, posted $75,000 bond Monday night. He is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm.
Varela was arrested more than two hours after arriving and demanding to see an editor of the newspaper's Spanish-language sister paper on Friday. He was carrying a knife and a black, plastic toy gun that resembled a real semiautomatic weapon, police said.
A police negotiator talked Varela into surrendering peacefully. No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.
Varela had problems with El Nuevo Herald, where he worked as a contractor, that included its position on Cuban emigres, police said.
While a cartoonist for the newspaper, Varela had routine access to the downtown building that houses both The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, officials said.
The papers are separate newspapers, but they share an office and are both published by The Miami Herald Media Co. El Nuevo Herald is one of the nation's largest Spanish-language newspapers.
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