A Pompano Beach man is facing charges after authorities said he waved a gun at a woman who was driving with her four young children during an alleged road-rage incident.<\/p>\n
Michael Beasley, 66, was arrested Monday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and improper exhibition of a firearm, records showed.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, the alleged incident happened back on March 21 in the area of the 2000 block of East Atlantic Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The woman said she was driving her blue Toyota sedan with her four young children inside when the driver of a silver Ford Taurus swerved in front of her, nearly hitting her vehicle, the report said.<\/p>\n
She said the driver started brake-checking her in traffic before he pulled alongside her and displayed a silver handgun that he waved in her direction, the report said.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles later came to a stop and the man waved the gun again, asking her “Do you want to die?” while laughing, the report said.<\/p>\n
The woman was later able to identify the car thanks to a distinctive personalized license plate, and the registered owner was found to be Beasley, the report said.<\/p>\n
Beasley was arrested and booked into jail. He later appeared before a judge who set his bond at $10,000.<\/p>\n
During his hearing, Beasley’s son asked the judge to consider his status as a military veteran, and his defense attorney said Beasley said the other person drew a weapon on him.<\/p>\n
In addition to the bond, the judge told Beasley he can only drive to the VA and to church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pompano Beach man is facing charges after authorities said he waved a gun at a woman who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-242343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","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\/242343","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=242343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}