{"id":30732,"date":"2025-11-03T01:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30732\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:36:23","slug":"victim-escapes-being-held-captive-during-armed-robbery-grady-judd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30732\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim escapes being held captive during armed robbery: Grady Judd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">LAKE WALES, Fla. &#8211; The victim of an armed robbery is recovering from several injuries after being held captive inside a man&#8217;s car, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Polk County <\/a>Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Deputies responded Friday morning to the scene near County Road 640 and US 27 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/lake-wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lake Wales<\/a> where the victim told them that they were &#8220;struck with a blunt object, held captive inside of a vehicle, threatened with a wrench, and personal property was stolen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/arrest.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim told deputies that they escaped through a passenger window in the car. Deputies say that the victim had injuries to the head, neck, arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators later located the suspect, 36-year-old Brock Sherrill of Frostproof, after locating his Chevy Equinox.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/winter-haven-police-officer-injured-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winter Haven police officer injured in crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sherrill was taken to the Sheriff&#8217;s Processing Center.<\/p>\n<p> Charges Armed RobberyAggravated BatteryFalse Imprisonment <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sherrill has a lengthy criminal history, including eight felony convictions, nine misdemeanor convictions and two stays in Florida prison.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">CLICK HERE:&gt;&gt;&gt; <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fox13tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/lake-wales\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Wales<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE WALES, Fla. &#8211; The victim of an armed robbery is recovering from several injuries after being held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,11818,115,7153,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-30732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-lake-wales","tag-news","tag-polk","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732","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=30732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}