{"id":436963,"date":"2026-10-24T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/436963\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:24:08","slug":"bodycam-shows-woman-tossing-stolen-tablet-into-canal-in-plantation-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/436963\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam shows woman tossing stolen tablet into canal in Plantation \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Body camera footage captured the moment when a woman accused of stealing someone&#8217;s tablet at a Starbucks in Plantation was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Arletha Brooks, 47, is facing several charges, including petit theft and resisting officers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Plantation Police, on Oct. 15, officers arrived at a Starbucks after a victim reported that a woman stole his tablet and then took off.<\/p>\n<p>In the body camera footage, officers met with Brooks and asked her to put her bag down.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was then seen arguing with officers, and while she was emptying her bag, she grabbed the tablet and threw it into a canal.<\/p>\n<p>She was then arrested and taken to the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Brooks also had two warrants for no lodging on city property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body camera footage captured the moment when a woman accused of stealing someone&#8217;s tablet at a Starbucks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1009,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-436963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-caught-on-camera","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\/436963","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=436963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}