{"id":468755,"date":"2026-09-19T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468755\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:44:19","slug":"cellphone-use-dispute-leads-to-pepper-spray-arrest-at-burbank-theater-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468755\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone use dispute leads to pepper-spray arrest at Burbank theater \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles man was arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying another moviegoer who was using a cellphone during a film at a Burbank theater, police tell NBC4.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Burbank Police Department responded to the AMC 16 theater at about 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 following a report that one patron had pepper-sprayed another inside a theater.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the suspect, 34-year-old Matthew Ware, became upset with another patron who was using a cellphone during the movie and sprayed the person with pepper spray.<\/p>\n<p>Two other moviegoers reported experiencing irritation from the pepper spray and were treated at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately provide additional details about the condition of the patrons or what happened immediately before the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Ware was arrested and booked into the Burbank Jail on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles man was arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying another moviegoer who was using a cellphone during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9596,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-468755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-burbank","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468755","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=468755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}