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Roy Ramos<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 12:24 PM<\/p>\n
Woman arrested for setting fire outside Hollywood business <\/p>\n
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A woman from Suwannee County was arrested for a case of arson at a South Florida business.<\/p>\n
From the moment the fire was set, which was around 5:20 p.m. on Dec. 27, officers were already searching for the suspect, finding and arresting her within three hours. <\/p>\n
Police identified her as Ann Marie Smith, 51, of Live Oak. An arrest report states that she was born in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the Sheridan Lumber Co. located at 2044 Sheridan St. in Hollywood shows who police said was Smith using a lighter and an accelerant to set fire to a pile of clothes outside the store.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Smith watched the fire grow before walking away. <\/p>\n
The business owner called Hollywood police, who quickly responded, and while firefighters were able to put the fire out, officers quickly began canvassing the area searching for Smith. <\/p>\n
She was found not far from the business, and a police body camera captured the moments she was arrested.<\/p>\n
Smith remains behind bars at the Paul Rein Detention Center facing a number of charges from a separate incident that includes battery with a deadly weapon, to go with the new second-degree arson charge. <\/p>\n
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Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 7, 2026 at 12:24 PM Woman arrested for setting fire outside Hollywood business HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-109302","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\/109302","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=109302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}