{"id":174738,"date":"2026-02-12T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:48:09","slug":"man-armed-with-machete-holds-family-hostage-in-oc-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174738\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Armed With Machete Holds Family Hostage In OC: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, CA \u2014 A man armed with a machete was engaged in a standoff with police Wednesday afternoon after apparently refusing to allow four family members to leave their home in Irvine. <\/p>\n<p>A relative of the man went to the Irvine police station at around 2:15 p.m. to report the dispute, happening in the 100 block of Terrapin, according to the Irvine Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>Four family members in an upstairs bedroom were not being allowed to leave by the suspect, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Just after 4 p.m., police were able to get the four family members out of the home with ladders.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4:15 p.m., police were still negotiating with the man to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS A BREAKING STORY. REFRESH FOR UPDATES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, CA \u2014 A man armed with a machete was engaged in a standoff with police Wednesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-174738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}