{"id":195882,"date":"2026-03-18T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:56:05","slug":"man-arrested-after-alleged-erratic-knife-incident-at-fort-pierce-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195882\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after alleged erratic knife incident at Fort Pierce home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Fort Pierce police arrested a man Thursday afternoon after a mother called 911 out of concern for her children.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoffortpierce.com\/1186\/Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> the Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a>, officers responded around 3:48 p.m. to Mohawk Drive after the mother reported receiving threatening texts from the children\u2019s father. When police arrived, they issued verbal commands through the door, then entered the home and found the man acting erratically while holding a knife. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-army-reserve-captain-cody-khork-returns-to-polk-county-after-death-in-kuwait-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida army reserve captain Cody Khork returns to Polk County after death in Kuwait<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed the children were safe and said this was an isolated incident with no threat to the public. The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Fort Pierce police arrested a man Thursday afternoon after a mother called 911&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-195882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195882","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=195882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}