{"id":388445,"date":"2026-09-02T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388445\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:16:15","slug":"broward-schools-assistant-principal-accused-of-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388445\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward schools assistant principal accused of robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788369375_99_handcuffs_approved.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Broward County Public Schools assistant principal was arrested Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, in Weston, jail records show.\" alt=\"A Broward County Public Schools assistant principal was arrested Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, in Weston, jail records show.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Broward County Public Schools assistant principal was arrested Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, in Weston, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p>A Broward County Public Schools assistant principal was arrested Sunday in Weston in connection with an off-campus domestic violence incident.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Horowitz, 53, is charged with robbery by sudden snatching and domestic violence battery, records show. He was being held with bond to be set at the Broward Main Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz, who is an assistant principal at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, has been \u201creassigned from the school following an off-campus incident, pending further Human Resources review and action, which may include termination,\u201d BCPS spokesperson John J. Sullivan told the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz\u2019s arrest stemmed from a disturbance call,  said Gerdy St. Louis, a spokesperson with the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office. Deputies went to a location near the 16000 block of Southwest Fifth Way in Weston shortly after midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of physically assaulting an adult and snatching a  cellphone, St. Louis said. Authorities didn\u2019t identify the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroward County Public Schools holds its school leaders to the highest standards of professional conduct and takes matters that may fall short of those standards seriously,\u201d Sullivan said in  a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/313699071\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788369375_194_Headshots AGS 036 .jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Sofia Saric\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County Public Schools assistant principal was arrested Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, in Weston, jail records show.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-388445","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\/388445","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=388445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}