{"id":145133,"date":"2026-02-05T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145133\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:10:08","slug":"hollywood-police-officers-arrest-a-man-after-an-alleged-angry-threat-to-kill-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145133\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood police officers arrest a man after an alleged angry threat to kill girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM<\/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\/02\/KRDNXW46KNGTZMMEQVRJXKUFHE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Damonte Kelly Police officers arrested Damontae Kelly on Feb. 1 in Hollywood, Fla. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Frightened Hollywood residents called 911 early Sunday morning to report that a stranger\u2019s rage had woken them up, and they wanted it to stop, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kasa at Cortland community\u2019s residents reported they \u201cheard\u201d a couple yelling and the man, who was kicking a front door, say, \u201che would kill the girl,\u201d according to a police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police officers responded to the three-story apartment building at 1900 N. 29 Ave. Body-cam video showed them shouting orders, weapons drawn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police officers identified the man, who was accused of \u201cmule-kicking the door,\u201d as Damontae Kelly, of Fort Lauderdale, according to an officer\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While in custody, Kelly, 29, of Fort Lauderdale, identified the woman as his girlfriend, an Airbnb user who had rented the apartment, according to the police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly denied trying to break into the apartment and said he just wanted to talk to his girlfriend, according to the police report. He faced a second-degree misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and breach of the peace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch the Hollywood Police Department\u2019s video <\/p>\n<p>Hollywood police releases video of Feb. 1 arrest  <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDamonte Kelly Police officers arrested Damontae Kelly on Feb. 1 in Hollywood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-145133","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\/145133","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=145133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}