{"id":155714,"date":"2026-02-14T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:16:09","slug":"strong-armed-robber-stabs-officer-during-arrest-in-fort-lauderdale-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155714\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong-armed robber stabs officer during arrest in Fort Lauderdale \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected thief in Fort Lauderdale stabbed an officer as they were being arrested on Saturday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, at around 11 a.m., officers arrived at the 1600 block of North Federal Highway after receiving reports of a possible robbery.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, the suspected thief fled on foot, and a pursuit ensued as officers deployed a Taser.<\/p>\n<p>When the suspect was being taken into custody, they stabbed an officer, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect also suffered minor injuries, and the two were taken to the Broward Health Medical Center for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, police said the incident was a strong-armed robbery of a cellphone between the suspect and the victim. who knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect&#8217;s identity or the charges they are facing were not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected thief in Fort Lauderdale stabbed an officer as they were being arrested on Saturday, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-155714","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\/155714","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=155714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}