The Brief<\/p>\n
Social media influencer Jack Doherty has been arrested in Florida.<\/p>\n
Doherty was arrested by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on Friday, Sept. 4, after getting into a physical fight with a female, police said.<\/p>\n
He was arrested under suspicion of domestic battery and booked into the Broward County Jail.<\/p>\n
Social media influencer Jack Doherty has been arrested in Florida.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Doherty was arrested by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on Friday morning, Sept. 4, on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery and booked into the Broward County jail, according to Fort Lauderdale Police and online jail records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His bond was listed as $0.00 Friday evening.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale police said officers responded to a home shortly before noon regarding a domestic dispute. Police said Doherty and a female got into a physical fight inside the home.<\/p>\n
The woman was not injured, police said. Doherty was then arrested.<\/p>\n
TMZ, citing a source close to the social media influencer, reported that Doherty’s actions were in self-defense.<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Doherty, then 22, was arrested by Miami Beach police in November 2025 on drug-related charges, including possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
According to online court records, Doherty was formally charged in January 2026 with felony possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest without violence, a misdemeanor. In March, he was accepted into a drug pre-trial diversion program.<\/p>\n
The marijuana possession charge was dropped, court records show.<\/p>\n
By the numbers<\/p>\n
Doherty has amassed more than 15 million subscribers on YouTube, and has uploaded more than 2,200 videos. On Instagram, he has more than 2.7 million followers.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This story uses information from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and the Broward County Jail website regarding Jack Doherty’s September 2026 arrest, and public court records via the Miami-Dade Clerk of Court and Comptroller website regarding his November 2025 arrest. Supplemental reporting from TMZ. Reported from Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Social media influencer Jack Doherty has been arrested in Florida. Doherty was arrested by the Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44750,156417,12255,28,30,29,969,31067],"class_list":["post-391205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county-jail","tag-broward-county-sheriffs","tag-doherty","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jack","tag-jack-doherty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391205","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=391205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}