{"id":333162,"date":"2026-07-08T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333162\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:41:08","slug":"police-man-arrested-after-barricading-himself-inside-hollywood-home-setting-it-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333162\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man arrested after barricading himself inside Hollywood home, setting it on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A man is in police custody after allegedly setting a fire inside a home that he had barricaded himself inside of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/08\/policia-arrestan-a-hombre-tras-atrincherarse-en-vivienda-de-hollywood-y-prenderle-fuego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/08\/policia-arrestan-a-hombre-tras-atrincherarse-en-vivienda-de-hollywood-y-prenderle-fuego\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened during the early morning hours on Wednesday along the 5200 block of Wiley Street in Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Hollywood police, officers responded to the home around 1:30 a.m. after receiving reports of a disturbance involving a man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When they arrived, officers said the man barricaded himself inside, and then around 4 a.m. the man intentionally set a fire inside the home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews with Hollywood Fire Rescue quickly responded and were able to extinguish the fire, which they said caused significant damage to the home which had previously been condemned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they were then able to remove the man from the engulfed home before taking him custody without further incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to HFR, the suspect, who has not been identified, suffers from severe mental illness and was taken to the hospital for treatment. <\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" 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\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM Updated:\u00a0July 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A man is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-333162","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\/333162","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=333162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}