{"id":106380,"date":"2026-01-05T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:34:08","slug":"man-arrested-on-sexual-battery-kidnapping-charges-after-woman-found-dead-on-hollywood-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106380\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on sexual battery, kidnapping charges after woman found dead on Hollywood Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ITBVBYPDN5BTNBIBSZ4KV7DFUM.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Brandon McCray (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Police announced an arrest Monday morning after a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/27\/foul-play-suspected-after-woman-found-dead-on-hollywood-beach\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/27\/foul-play-suspected-after-woman-found-dead-on-hollywood-beach\/\">was found dead<\/a> under suspicious circumstances on Hollywood Beach the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police announced that they and U.S. Marshals took Brandon Ward McCray, 28, into custody on sexual battery, kidnapping, battery and battery by strangulation charges last Tuesday in connection with the death of 56-year-old Heather Asendorf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a passerby noticed Asendorf\u2019s body on the sand near Cleveland Street at around 7 a.m. on Dec. 26 and called authorities. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene and detectives later determined there was foul play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities did not release any details about what tied McCray to the case and his arrest warrant was listed as sealed on the Broward Clerk of Courts website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said he was arrested at his home in the 1200 block of North 17th Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis case remains an active criminal investigation,\u201d Hollywood police said in a news release. \u201cThere is no indication of a broader threat to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday morning, McCray was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $770,000 bond, records show.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandBrandon McCray (WPLG) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Police announced an arrest Monday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-106380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}