{"id":247365,"date":"2026-04-26T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:40:07","slug":"florida-teens-arrested-after-lawn-mower-joyride-inside-target-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247365\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida teens arrested after lawn mower joyride inside Target store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo teens were arrested Saturday following the release of a video showing one of them  driving a lawn mower inside a Target store, according to the Ocala Police Department.Police say 18-year-old Janek Szkaradek arrived at the Target store on Southwest College Road, unloaded a lawn mower from a trailer, and drove it through the doors of the store, damaging them as he drove through. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Luke Charske recorded a video for social media. Szkaradek is also being connected to another incident that took place at a Culver&#8217;s restaurant. Police say that he used a leaf blower in the dining room, though it is unknown if any injuries occurred.&#8221;These actions endangered people and caused property damage,&#8221; said a spokesperson for the Ocala Police Department. &#8220;They are crimes, not harmless videos,&#8221; they continued.Szkaradek was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct for the incident that took place at Culver&#8217;s and with disorderly conduct for the incident at Target. Charske was charged with principal to disorderly conduct for the incident at Target, according to police. &#8220;Think before you record- It&#8217;s not worth an arrest and a criminal charge,&#8221; Ocala police said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOCALA, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two teens were arrested Saturday following the release of a video showing one of them  driving a lawn mower inside a Target store, according to the Ocala Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police say 18-year-old Janek Szkaradek arrived at the Target store on Southwest College Road, unloaded a lawn mower from a trailer, and drove it through the doors of the store, damaging them as he drove through. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Luke Charske recorded a video for social media. <\/p>\n<p>Szkaradek is also being connected to another incident that took place at a Culver&#8217;s restaurant. Police say that he used a leaf blower in the dining room, though it is unknown if any injuries occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These actions endangered people and caused property damage,&#8221; said a spokesperson for the Ocala Police Department. &#8220;They are crimes, not harmless videos,&#8221; they continued.<\/p>\n<p>Szkaradek was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct for the incident that took place at Culver&#8217;s and with disorderly conduct for the incident at Target. Charske was charged with principal to disorderly conduct for the incident at Target, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think before you record- It&#8217;s not worth an arrest and a criminal charge,&#8221; Ocala police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teens were arrested Saturday following the release of a video showing one of them driving a lawn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108639,265,52087,98068,28,30,29,34965,108635,658,108636,2649,108637,1181,132,44767,5221,6097,21275,108638,3506,4940,3709,29904,1045],"class_list":{"0":"post-247365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-charske","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-culver","11":"tag-disorderly-conduct","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-florida-teen","16":"tag-harmless-video","17":"tag-incident","18":"tag-lawn-mower-joyride","19":"tag-ocala","20":"tag-ocala-police-department","21":"tag-place","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-prank","24":"tag-restaurant","25":"tag-social-media","26":"tag-social-medium","27":"tag-szkaradek","28":"tag-target-store","29":"tag-teens","30":"tag-tiktok","31":"tag-trend","32":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247365","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=247365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}