{"id":210991,"date":"2026-03-29T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:03:07","slug":"77-year-old-florida-man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-woman-with-gun-on-u-s-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210991\/","title":{"rendered":"77-year-old Florida man arrested after allegedly threatening woman with gun on U.S. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-year-old man is facing charges after deputies say he threatened a woman with a firearm during a domestic incident in the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the incident happened around 2:50 p.m. on March 28 near Mile Marker 38 on U.S. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Charles Durand Wilkinson, of Okeechobee, retrieved a revolver and told the victim, &#8220;I aught to shoot you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman was able to pull over, disarm Wilkinson, and throw the firearm into nearby bushes, deputies said. The weapon was later recovered by responding officers.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No serious injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old man is facing charges after deputies say he threatened a woman with a firearm during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,2472,29,807],"class_list":["post-210991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210991","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=210991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}