{"id":17962,"date":"2025-10-23T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17962\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:21:09","slug":"man-arrested-in-lauderdale-lakes-aldi-sucker-punch-case-that-left-victim-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17962\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Lauderdale Lakes Aldi sucker punch case that left victim in coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM<\/p>\n<p>Man accused of putting man in coma after sucker punching him at Aldi in Lauderdale Lakes  A man accused of sucker punching another shopper outside a Lauderdale Lakes Aldi nearly two weeks ago, leaving the victim in a coma, has been arrested.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla.  \u2014 A man accused of sucker punching another shopper outside a Lauderdale Lakes Aldi nearly two weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/16\/suspect-sought-after-man-sucker-punched-at-aldi-in-lauderdale-lakes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/16\/suspect-sought-after-man-sucker-punched-at-aldi-in-lauderdale-lakes\/\">leaving the victim in a coma<\/a>, has been arrested, according to jail records obtained by Local 10 News on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/23\/bso-arrestan-a-hombre-por-golpear-por-sorpresa-a-persona-en-aldi-de-lauderdale-lakes-dejandola-en-coma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/23\/bso-arrestan-a-hombre-por-golpear-por-sorpresa-a-persona-en-aldi-de-lauderdale-lakes-dejandola-en-coma\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show that 45-year-old Dandrea Tioni Johnson was taken into custody by Broward deputies Wednesday and booked into the Broward Main Jail on a felony battery charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson told the judge he was attacked by the victim\u2019s pit bull service dog, which he said led him to strike the victim. The victim remains hospitalized in a coma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The attack happened around 7:20 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the Aldi on 3301 North State Road 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video showed Johnson arguing with the victim inside the store before following him outside, where deputies said he sucker-punched the man, causing him to fall and hit his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s a father, he\u2019s a grandfather, he\u2019s a brother, he\u2019s a son, and everybody is just devastated,\u201d the victim\u2019s brother told Local 10 News last week. \u201cAnd then to be put in a coma \u2014 it\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge found probable cause Thursday morning and set Johnson\u2019s bond at $100,000. He was also ordered to wear a GPS monitor, have no contact with the victim, and stay away from the grocery store. <\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM Updated:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM Man accused of putting man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-17962","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\/17962","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=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}