{"id":380535,"date":"2026-08-25T10:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380535\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:08:18","slug":"jacksonville-man-accused-of-assault-involving-boiling-water-pizza-spatula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380535\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man accused of assault involving boiling water, pizza spatula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing assault charges after police say he attacked another person with a pizza spatula, a pot of boiling water and repeated punches.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Simms, 45, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and simple assault.<\/p>\n<p>Court records say the alleged assault happened June 11.<\/p>\n<p>According to those records, Simms is accused of using a pizza spatula and a pot of boiling water during the assault. Authorities describe the pot of boiling water as a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Records also allege Simms repeatedly punched the victim in the head and body.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Police arrested Simms on August 24. He was taken to the Onslow County Jail and received a $10,000 secured bond following his first court appearance Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing assault charges after police say he attacked another person with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-380535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380535","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=380535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}