{"id":386321,"date":"2026-08-31T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:08:08","slug":"hollywood-man-purposely-lit-victim-on-fire-severely-burning-him-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386321\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood man purposely lit victim on fire, severely burning him, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ZH7FZSQGRBBJLOXUINKO63KNV4.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Jesus Montes de Oca (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A Hollywood man is facing charges including attempted murder after police said he lit another man on fire Friday, causing him severe burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/31\/hombre-de-hollywood-es-acusado-de-prender-fuego-intencionalmente-a-otra-persona-y-causarle-graves-quemaduras\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/31\/hombre-de-hollywood-es-acusado-de-prender-fuego-intencionalmente-a-otra-persona-y-causarle-graves-quemaduras\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Jesus Montes de Oca, 74, was arrested at his home in the 800 block of South Southlake Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From his bed at Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, police said the victim told a detective that Montes de Oca threw an \u201cunknown accelerant\u201d on him and lit him ablaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, the victim suffered second-degree burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montes de Oca, for his part, claimed that the victim \u201chad applied rubbing alcohol to himself\u201d and \u201cattempted to assist (him) by trying to wipe the fire from him and extinguish the flames,\u201d but the victim \u201cwould not allow him\u201d to help, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report doesn\u2019t state how the two men know each other or what led to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Besides the attempted murder charge, Montes de Oca faces a charge of criminal solicitation or conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday morning, he was being held without bond in the Broward Main Jail, records show.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM Updated:\u00a0August 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandJesus Montes de Oca (MDCR) HOLLYWOOD,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-386321","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\/386321","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=386321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}