{"id":234572,"date":"2026-04-16T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:22:17","slug":"woman-arrested-after-throwing-beer-bottles-at-toddler-in-florida-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234572\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after throwing beer bottles at toddler in Florida: deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WKRC)  \u2014 A woman was taken into custody after she was accused of throwing beer bottles at a toddler, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OkaloosaSheriff\/posts\/pfbid02n8kab79e76ebo6nx8TVpQqnzSNLqX3hL6wggCUm2p3QT4HHSKwvB6j1Rx7zcA6FKl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Okaloosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> on Wednesday said Carolyn Miller was arrested after she allegedly threw bottles of beer at a toddler in the Fort Walton Beach, Florida area.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to the area on Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. for a report of a disturbance. Investigators said Miller had been involved in an incident after falling from her bicycle. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told deputies that a 3-year-old child approached Miller in an apparent attempt to check on her well-being when she picked up two beer bottles and threw them in the child\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the bottles were thrown with enough force that the child could have been hit in the head if he had not ducked.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s parents and several nearby residents witnessed the incident and provided sworn statements to deputies, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said Miller was unable to provide a coherent explanation for her actions, telling them she believed she was being attacked. She suffered a minor finger injury consistent with falling from a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>No injuries to the child were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WKRC) \u2014 A woman was taken into custody after she was accused of throwing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-234572","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\/234572","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=234572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}