{"id":387703,"date":"2026-09-02T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387703\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:20:13","slug":"lauderhill-vice-mayor-campaigning-for-commission-seat-appears-in-broward-bond-court-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387703\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauderhill vice mayor campaigning for commission seat appears in Broward bond court after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Richard Campbell, who has served as Lauderhill\u2019s vice mayor since he was elected in 2022, appeared in Broward County bond court on Tuesday morning in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/vice-alcalde-de-lauderhill-con-campana-por-puesto-en-la-comision-comparece-ante-tribunal-de-fianzas-de-broward-tras-su-detencion\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/vice-alcalde-de-lauderhill-con-campana-por-puesto-en-la-comision-comparece-ante-tribunal-de-fianzas-de-broward-tras-su-detencion\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell, 70, stood before Broward County Circuit Judge Corey B. Friedman after Lauderhill police officers arrested him<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> afternoon for alleged domestic violence on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Attorney Eric Schwartzreich represented Campbell, a physical therapist who served as commissioner from 2018 to 2020, and has been campaigning for the commission\u2019s seat four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe deny these allegations, we refute them,\u201d Schwartzreich told Friedman in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before his arrest, Campbell said his accuser was an ex-girlfriend who refused to move out of his home for months, and he described the domestic violence case as a smear campaign ahead of the Nov. 3rd election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There were \u201cnine agents in an investigation into what was a misdemeanor battery that wasn\u2019t recorded,\u201d Schwartzreich told Friedman in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schwartzreich also told Friedman that Campbell was never served the restraining order mentioned in the case affidavit. <\/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 in the case and her family, and he set his bond at $7,500. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related report: <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\/\">Lauderhill vice mayor accused of domestic violence as he campaigns for commission seat<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Richard Campbell, who has served as Lauderhill\u2019s vice mayor since he was elected in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-387703","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\/387703","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=387703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}