{"id":6421,"date":"2025-10-16T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6421\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:44:07","slug":"naked-florida-man-terrorizes-neighborhood-and-locals-say-hes-lucky-he-wasnt-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6421\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Florida man terrorizes neighborhood\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and locals say\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0lucky he\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A naked Florida man terrorized a neighborhood in a late-night rampage, breaking into multiple homes and destroying property \u2014 with on-edge neighbors saying he\u2019s lucky he wasn\u2019t shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>The bare-naked burglar, identified by police as 23-year-old Joshua Garrison, was caught on security camera lurking through backyards in Pinellas Park outside of St. Petersburg last week, touching himself sexually and causing significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was asleep, and the doorbell rang, and I answered the door,\u201d neighbor David Dale\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/naked-man-caught-on-camera-terrorizing-pinellas-park-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told WFLA<\/a>. \u201cOpened the door and there was a guy standing there, and he was stark naked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Garrison was arrested for terrorizing homes. Pinellas Park Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The nude Florida man seen terrorizing homes was identified as Joshua Garrison. Tim Reischmann \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe threw a pot of plants through my truck window and tore the lights off the front of my house,\u201d Dale added.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident said Garrison tried to get through the screen of a window before he ran into his backyard, touched himself sexually and came back with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went into my shed, grabbed an ax and came back onto the back porch,\u201d Thomas Reischmann said.<br \/>\u201cWe don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t use it,\u201d noting that his back door was unlocked at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Garrison was arrested for causing damage to homeowners properties and breaking into multiple homes. He was captured in the act while in the buff. Tim Reischmann \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Garrison helped himself to a bottle of beer and a can of soda from an outdoor fridge before he took off and hopped over Reischmann\u2019s 6-foot fence into the night, video shows.<\/p>\n<p>Locals were shaken-up by the string of bizarre break-ins, with one noting that many residents are armed and ready to defend their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all Second Amendment people here in Pinellas Park; we will shoot you,\u201d one unidentified neighbor told the outlet. \u201cHe got lucky we didn\u2019t wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nude man was captured entering a home. Tim Reischmann \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to reports of the troubling break-ins on Oct. 7 and police arrested Garrison, who is believed to be homeless, on Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/nude-florida-man-arrested-after-multiple-home-burglaries-pinellas-park-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to Fox 13 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garrison is facing multiple charges including armed residential burglary, two counts of residential burglaries, lewd behavior, criminal mischief and violating probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A naked Florida man terrorized a neighborhood in a late-night rampage, breaking into multiple homes and destroying property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[692,4485,265,28,30,29,4278],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrest","tag-burglaries","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","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=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}