{"id":427553,"date":"2026-10-14T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427553\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:58:06","slug":"mcso-central-florida-woman-jailed-after-trying-to-ransom-dog-she-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427553\/","title":{"rendered":"MCSO: Central Florida woman jailed after trying to ransom dog she found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A Central Florida woman has been arrested after she found a lost dog and tried to hold it ransom until the owner paid her handsomely, according to the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In a release, deputies said they initially responded after receiving a report about the theft of a family pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Per investigators, the victim\u2019s dog \u2014 named \u201cTeddy\u201d \u2014 walked away, though the victim soon came across a Facebook post that the dog had been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The victim reached out to the user \u2014 identified as Christina Spence Reid \u2014 who sent the victim a phot of herself with Teddy and demanded the victims pay her $1,000 to get him back, deputies explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cDeputies located Spence Reid at her home with Teddy still in her possession, and she admitted that she planned to keep him unless the victims paid,\u201d the release reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Spence Reid was ultimately arrested on Saturday night and now faces a charge of grand theft. She was released on Sunday on bond of $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A Central Florida woman has been arrested after she found a lost dog and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,3833,2546],"class_list":["post-427553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-marion-county","tag-strange-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427553","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=427553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}