{"id":229919,"date":"2026-04-13T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:08:15","slug":"aspiring-florida-governor-faces-domestic-violence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229919\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring Florida governor faces domestic violence charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM<\/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\/04\/4WS4VZYKHNFSJI3FSBVS5QVPD4.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE: Deputies arrested Kevin Cichowski on Friday in Flagler County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Kevin Cichowski, an aspiring Florida governor who declared his candidacy for the Democratic primary, faced domestic violence charges on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cichowski, 46, a 2021 Palm Coast mayoral candidate, injured his 82-year-old father and his 76-year-old mother on Friday at their home in Palm Coast, according to a Flagler County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cichowski struck his father on the head with a firearm that he also pointed at his mouth, ear, and groin, while he \u201cthreatened to shoot and kill him,\u201d according to the deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His mother \u2014 who was bedridden \u2014 reported Chichowski snatched her cellphone and struck her in the head with it, and she suffered \u201ca clear injury,\u201d according to the deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the attack, Chichowski told them that if they called 911, he would kill them and law enforcement, according to the deputy\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chichowski faced six charges: Two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of battery on a person over 65, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and tampering or depriving a witness with the use of 911. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE: Deputies arrested Kevin Cichowski on Friday in Flagler County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-229919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229919","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=229919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}