{"id":252727,"date":"2026-04-30T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:35:12","slug":"fight-pistol-whipping-outside-plantation-publix-leads-to-2-arrests-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252727\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight, pistol-whipping outside Plantation Publix leads to 2 arrests, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A fight involving a pistol-whipping outside of a Publix in Plantation led to two arrests Wednesday night, according to the city\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/30\/pelea-y-golpe-con-pistola-afuera-de-publix-en-plantation-deja-dos-arrestados-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/30\/pelea-y-golpe-con-pistola-afuera-de-publix-en-plantation-deja-dos-arrestados-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened at around 8:15 p.m. at the supermarket chain\u2019s location at 6921 W. Broward Blvd., within the Plantation Towne Square shopping center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said \u201cone suspect pulled out a handgun, struck one of the victims in the back of the head with it and stole the victim\u2019s cellphone,\u201d while a \u201csecond victim reported being bitten, scratched and punched by another suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said after pulling over the suspects\u2019 vehicle, they arrested Khamal J. Powell, 28, on charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, as well as an identity theft warrant out of Brevard County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They also arrested Khalil Sean Powell, 29, on two battery charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police didn\u2019t immediately say whether or how the two men were related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Khalil Powell had been booked into the Broward Main Jail on Wednesday. Khamal Powell did not appear in Broward jail records.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" 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\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A fight involving a pistol-whipping outside of a Publix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-252727","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\/252727","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=252727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}