{"id":149609,"date":"2026-02-10T02:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:06:20","slug":"man-charged-with-felony-vandalism-after-70k-damage-in-downtown-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149609\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with felony vandalism after $70K damage in downtown Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Orlando man faces felony charges after causing an estimated $70,000 in vandalism damage throughout the downtown district on Thursday, Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orlando Police arrested Jean Charmant in relation to the incident involving broken windows and damaged vehicles. Surveillance footage confirmed Charmant as the suspect responsible for the property damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\n<p>Officers report that vandalism affected different types of properties throughout the downtown area. Damage was observed on residential buildings, local businesses, historic windows, and multiple vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>According to police records, Charmant was read his Miranda rights and later admitted to the crimes. <\/p>\n<p>He has been formally charged with felony criminal mischief related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orlando man faces felony charges after causing an estimated $70,000 in vandalism damage throughout the downtown district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72340,38997,72339,72155,139,141,140,1120,7940,36611,8073],"class_list":{"0":"post-149609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-broken-windows","9":"tag-criminal-mischief","10":"tag-damaged-vehicles","11":"tag-jean-charmant","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-orlando-police","16":"tag-property-damage","17":"tag-surveillance-footage","18":"tag-vandalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149609","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=149609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}