A burglary suspect in Fort Lauderdale accused of trying to run away and shooting a K-9 was arrested, police said.<\/p>\n
According to Fort Lauderdale Police, on Saturday, at around 7:24 p.m., officers arrived at the 1600 block of Northwest 16th Court after receiving reports of a possible residential burglary.<\/p>\n
At the scene, officers created a perimeter and were being helped by the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s aviation unit.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect tried to run away, and an officer let go of his K-9 to help stop the suspect.<\/p>\n
The suspect then fired a gun, which struck the K-9.<\/p>\n
The K-9 was taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment and is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n
Back at the scene, SWAT arrived, and the suspect was eventually found and arrested.<\/p>\n
Authorities said a gun was found in the area.<\/p>\n
The suspect was taken to the Broward Health Medical Center for treatment after he was bitten by the K-9.<\/p>\n
Their identity or the charges they are facing have not been released.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the incident remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A burglary suspect in Fort Lauderdale accused of trying to run away and shooting a K-9 was arrested,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-237903","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\/237903","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=237903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}