{"id":275688,"date":"2026-05-18T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:33:09","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-opens-animal-abuse-case-after-rescuing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275688\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police opens animal abuse case after rescuing dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Police officers opened an animal abuse case after finding a weak French bulldog mix on Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The police officers turned the dog over to <a href=\"https:\/\/iheartanimalrescue.pet\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/iheartanimalrescue.pet\/\">iHeart Animal Rescue<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that helps animals in need of veterinary care, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cindy Mucciaccio and Cheryl Marrone, who both work for the nonprofit organization, said they named the neglected dog \u201cMiracle\u201d \u2014 because that was their hope. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe suffered a lot,\u201d Marrone said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers responded after a couple found the dog in the parking lot of the Walgreens along West Broward Boulevard, near Interstate 95. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The malnourished and injured dog has been undergoing care at the Veterinary Emergency Group at 1620 North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous. <\/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=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Roy Ramos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/a327c0b5-d59c-45a5-a2.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Roy Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Isabella Martin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/09e8bd89-5433-45a7-b775-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Isabella Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Isabella Martin joined the reporting team at WPLG in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Police officers opened an animal abuse case after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-275688","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\/275688","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=275688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}