{"id":286195,"date":"2026-05-27T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:07:09","slug":"jacksonville-man-charged-with-strangling-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286195\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man charged with strangling girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars facing charges of assault on his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Korey Scott was arrested Wednesday by the Jacksonville Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warrants show that on Tuesday, the 23-year-old strangled his girlfriend, making it hard for her to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to documents, the victim had bruising along her neck as a result of the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scott was charged with felony assault by strangulation, assault on a female, and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. He was taken to the Onslow County Jail, where he remains under no bond. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars facing charges of assault on his girlfriend. Korey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8128,16903,116,118,117,121284,4480],"class_list":["post-286195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-assault","tag-domestic","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-korey-scott","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286195","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=286195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}