{"id":115012,"date":"2026-01-12T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:03:08","slug":"smoke-shop-owner-scares-off-burglars-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115012\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke shop owner scares off burglars in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0January 12, 2026 at 8:50 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\/IBU6JCLYHNHRLF2NKA67D2ZYEQ.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police are investigating a break-in that occurred early Sunday morning at a smoke shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the \u201cin progress\u201d burglary was reported at about 4:30 a.m. at 954 Vapes in the 6200 block of North Federal Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the owner was inside the business when the front window of his store was smashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The owner was able to scare off the burglars, who fled the scene in a gray vehicle, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not immediately confirm how many people were involved in the break-in or whether anything was stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to call the Fort Lauderdale Police Department or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM Updated:\u00a0January 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-115012","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\/115012","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=115012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}