{"id":1578,"date":"2025-10-14T06:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1578\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:21:22","slug":"fort-lauderdale-man-jumps-into-river-after-committing-armed-carjacking-in-central-florida-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1578\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale man jumps into river after committing armed carjacking in Central Florida, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale man accused in armed carjacking in Central Florida  A Fort Lauderdale man is accused of an armed carjacking in Central Florida.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A Fort Lauderdale man is accused of an armed carjacking in Central Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/08\/hombre-de-fort-lauderdale-se-lanza-a-un-rio-tras-cometer-un-robo-de-auto-a-mano-armada-en-florida-central-segun-los-agentes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/08\/hombre-de-fort-lauderdale-se-lanza-a-un-rio-tras-cometer-un-robo-de-auto-a-mano-armada-en-florida-central-segun-los-agentes\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Volusia County deputies say 34-year-old Grant Hagood-James ordered a victim out of his car at gunpoint Monday night, and then took off with the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The carjacking led to a chase, and deputies say Hagood-James ditched the car and then tried to escape by jumping into a river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies found him hiding in nearby mangroves and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was not hurt and his car has since been recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hagood-James was arrested on an armed carjacking charge and, as of Wednesday morning, was being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM Updated:\u00a0October 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM Fort Lauderdale man accused in armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}