{"id":344956,"date":"2026-07-19T02:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:58:07","slug":"miami-police-arrest-dog-owner-after-alleged-pit-bull-attack-in-wynwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344956\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami police arrest dog owner after alleged pit bull attack in Wynwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A dog owner is behind bars after Miami police said his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/17\/man-seeks-justice-after-alleged-wynwood-attack-leaves-him-dog-seriously-injured\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/17\/man-seeks-justice-after-alleged-wynwood-attack-leaves-him-dog-seriously-injured\/\">two pit bulls attacked a man and his dog in Wynwood.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police identified the owner as Jonte Jack. Investigators said Jack owned the two pit bulls that ambushed a man who was out running with his dog in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the runner told officers Jack encouraged the dogs to attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video taken by a bystander after the incident shows the victim on the ground as the two pit bulls walk away with their owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, 30-year-old Evan Motlong, suffered cuts and bruises and is recovering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jack is facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felony battery and criminal mischief. <\/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=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM MIAMI \u2014 A dog owner is behind bars after Miami police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-344956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344956","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=344956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}