{"id":185597,"date":"2026-03-10T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:06:08","slug":"man-accused-of-stabbing-dog-in-fort-lauderdale-threatening-to-stab-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185597\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of stabbing dog in Fort Lauderdale, threatening to stab owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 8:50 AM<\/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\/03\/3MKUGZLF5RGNBF5OSRI4QLDZAY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Michael Anderson (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A man was arrested last week after he allegedly stabbed a dog that was in the backyard of its own home in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, Michael Anderson, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested last Friday on multiple charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Anderson entered the backyard of a home and stabbed a man\u2019s dog two times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim told police that during the altercation with Anderson, he threatened to also stab the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anderson was detained at the scene and admitted to entering the victim\u2019s property and stabbing his dog, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anderson faces charges of animal torture causing cruel death, pain or suffering and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motive for the attack remains unclear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday morning, Anderson was being held at the Broward County Main Jail on a $30,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 8:50 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMichael Anderson (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-185597","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\/185597","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=185597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}