{"id":362018,"date":"2026-08-04T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:38:08","slug":"were-scared-vandal-keeps-coming-back-to-damage-hollywood-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re scared\u2019: Vandal keeps coming back to damage Hollywood home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 Police in Broward County are searching for a man they said continues to return to a Hollywood home and cause damage every time he visits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/03\/tenemos-miedo-vandalo-sigue-regresando-para-causar-danos-a-vivienda-en-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/03\/tenemos-miedo-vandalo-sigue-regresando-para-causar-danos-a-vivienda-en-hollywood\/\">Leer en esapa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Security footage has captured the man each time he has shown up and destroyed something. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The couple who owns the home does not live there. They said it is their second home, but they have had guests there when the criminal shows up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the homeowners, the man makes vague threats, has torn cameras off the house and broken multiple windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Every time he shows up, the couple calls the cops, but the guy always leaves before officers arrive, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re scared, very anxious about it, because this guy is targeting our house for God knows why,\u201d said one of the homeowners. \u201cWe don\u2019t know him. We have no enemies, nothing. It\u2019s vandalism, it\u2019s threats, it\u2019s theft, and we have no idea what he wants from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The homeowner went on to say that she is constantly checking her cameras because there is no telling when the man will be back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police are investigating and are asking anyone who thinks they recognize the man to give them a call, or to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.<\/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=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM Updated:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Police in Broward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-362018","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\/362018","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=362018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}