Police say a late-night dispute about chickens escalated into gunfire outside a Port St. Lucie pub.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 An argument about\u00a0<\/a>chickens laying eggs ended in gunfire outside a pub in Florida, police say<\/a>.<\/p>\n Officers were called to Harper\u2019s Pub in Port Saint Lucie, Florida around 2:48 a.m. on Nov. 4 after 44-year-old Peter Riera told 911 he had been robbed and was being chased. When officers arrived, they found Riera holding a loaded handgun.\u00a0<\/p>\n Three other people, two men and a woman, were also detained at the scene. Police said Riera fired four shots at the group as they ran, but no one was hurt.<\/p>\n According to witness statements in the report, the group had been talking with Riera, who they had just met that night and referred to as \u201cFarmer Pete,\u201d when a discussion about chickens and egg production escalated. One witness told police Riera became agitated, accused them of trying to \u201ccon\u201d him, and later pulled out a gun.<\/p>\n Investigators found four spent shell casings in the parking lot. Riera was arrested and faces charges for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and other offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a late-night dispute about chickens escalated into gunfire outside a Port St. Lucie pub. WASHINGTON \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-56401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56401","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=56401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}