{"id":324659,"date":"2026-06-30T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:07:07","slug":"man-arrested-after-being-accused-of-slapping-park-ranger-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324659\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after being accused of slapping park ranger in Fort Lauderdale, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of slapping a park ranger in the face in Fort Lauderdale was arrested on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, the man was sleeping at the beach, and he had been told several times in the past that he isn&#8217;t allowed to sleep on the beach overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man started to become aggressive with the park ranger, and he slapped her in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were then called to the beach, and the man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with battery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of slapping a park ranger in the face in Fort Lauderdale was arrested on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-324659","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\/324659","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=324659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}