{"id":289602,"date":"2026-05-30T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289602\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:45:07","slug":"man-faces-federal-gun-charge-in-flpd-k-9-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289602\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces federal gun charge in FLPD K-9 shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Broward County man is facing a federal gun charge stemming from the shooting of a Fort Lauderdale Police K-9<\/a> during a burglary investigation earlier this year.<\/p>\n

On April 18, Fort Lauderdale officers were called to an Airbnb in the 1600 block of Northwest 16th Court after a group of women who had rented the home returned to find it in disarray, furniture flipped over, their belongings ransacked a man inside.<\/p>\n

Christian Q. Bouie, 30, of Fort Lauderdale, was identified as the suspect. He tried to flee the perimeter officers set up during the investigation, and as an officer released K-9 Appie, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, to apprehend him, Bouie shot the dog in its shoulder, the police department previously said. The dog underwent a successful surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Fort Lauderdale officers arrested Bouie, they found a gun in his pocket, federal prosecutors said in a news release Friday.\u00a0 A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Bouie could face up to 15 years in federal prison, the news release said.<\/p>\n

In addition to the federal charge, Bouie faces charges in Broward Circuit Court of use of a deadly weapon on a police animal, interfering with law enforcement officers with violence, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and resisting officers without violence. He has not yet entered a plea to the state charges.<\/p>\n

Fort Lauderdale Police K-9 recovering from successful surgery after shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County man is facing a federal gun charge stemming from the shooting of a Fort Lauderdale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-289602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289602","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=289602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}