{"id":292254,"date":"2026-06-01T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292254\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:20:08","slug":"judge-cuts-wife-with-butter-knife-at-their-miami-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292254\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge cuts wife with butter knife at their Miami home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A man identified in an arrest report as a judge cut his wife of 14 years with a butter knife at their home in Miami\u2019s Shenandoah neighborhood, leading to his arrest on Sunday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gerald Foulds, 79, is now facing a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon on a person 65 or older. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Online sources list him as serving as an administrative law judge with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear as of Monday whether Foulds, who turns 80 on June 19, still works for the agency and he was not listed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/directories\/find-mbr\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/directories\/find-mbr\/\">online Florida Bar records<\/a> as of Monday afternoon. Local 10 News has contacted HHS seeking additional information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to a report from the Miami Police Department, the incident happened at around 7 a.m. Sunday at a home shared by Foulds and his wife in the 1600 block of Southwest 17th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Foulds and his wife had gotten into a verbal argument that turned physical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIn an attempt to avoid the confrontation, she went into the kitchen. (Foulds) followed her, grabbed her by the left shoulder, where she attempted to defend herself by blocking him with her left arm,\u201d the MPD report states. \u201cThe victim stated that (Foulds) then armed himself with a butter knife that was on the kitchen counter and cut her left arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman went to a neighbor\u2019s home for help and police said the neighbor called the woman\u2019s ex-husband, who took her to an urgent care clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said she described Foulds as \u201cimpulsive, aggressive and having a drinking problem.\u201d The arrest report lists that investigators believed Foulds had been drinking at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Foulds denied the allegations. Records show he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A man identified in an arrest report as a judge cut his wife of 14 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-292254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254","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=292254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}