{"id":387681,"date":"2026-09-01T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:56:11","slug":"broward-corrections-releases-lauderhill-vice-mayor-on-7500-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387681\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward corrections releases Lauderhill vice mayor on $7,500 bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 7:10 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\/09\/7T72R3HGDBEQNEJXWBZNSTIH3E.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Richard Campbell, who has served as Lauderhill\u2019s vice mayor since voters elected him in 2022, walked out of the Broward County Main Jail on Tuesday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lauderhill police officers arrested Campbell, 70, on Monday after a domestic violence investigation. He appeared before Broward County Circuit Judge Corey B. Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/01\/lauderhill-vice-mayor-campaigning-for-commission-seat-appears-in-broward-bond-court-after-arrest\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/01\/lauderhill-vice-mayor-campaigning-for-commission-seat-appears-in-broward-bond-court-after-arrest\">on Tuesday morning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is going to fight this. We believe there is a lot more to this that is political in nature,\u201d Attorney Eric Schwartzreich said outside the jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell, a physical therapist who served as commissioner from 2018 to 2020, has been campaigning for the election of the Lauderhill commission\u2019s seat four on Nov. 3rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before his arrest, Campbell told Local 10 News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/31\/lauderhill-vice-mayor-accused-of-domestic-violence-as-he-campaigns-for-reelection\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/31\/lauderhill-vice-mayor-accused-of-domestic-violence-as-he-campaigns-for-reelection\/\">on Monday <\/a>that the alleged victim was his ex-girlfriend, who refused to move out of his home for months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell faced charges of harassing a witness, a first-degree misdemeanor, and domestic battery, also a first-degree misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friedman ordered Campbell to stay away from the victim of the alleged incident on Aug. 3 and her family. His bond was $7,500. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related reports <\/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=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-387681","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\/387681","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=387681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}