{"id":331247,"date":"2026-07-06T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331247\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:42:08","slug":"broward-deputies-84-year-old-man-sets-car-on-fire-with-woman-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331247\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputies: 84-year-old man sets car on fire with woman inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla.  \u2014 An 84-year-old man appeared in court on Monday after he was accused of setting a car on fire with a woman inside in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Franklin Davis and the woman had recently ended a 42-year-old relationship when they got into an argument on Friday in Oakland Park, according to Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PRU2M54Q2ZFEJBGYY2GUGOKPZM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>BROWARD COUNTY MAIN JAIL: Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies arrested Franklin Davis for arson on Friday in Oakland Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Davis was under the influence of alcohol when he poured a flammable liquid and set the fire in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 3100 NW 9th Ave., according to BSO deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman suffered third-degree burns to her left leg, and Davis suffered burns to his hands and face, according to BSO deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Davis, who used a wheelchair in court, faced three charges: Premeditated attempted murder; arson causing bodily harm; and criminal attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit a capital felony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge denied Davis bond. Corrections held him at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Samiar Nefzi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/9dfe9245-12b2-40be-bc.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Samiar Nefzi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Samiar Nefzi joined the Local 10 News team in August of 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM Updated:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 An 84-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-331247","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\/331247","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=331247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}