{"id":88193,"date":"2025-12-18T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:18:07","slug":"hollywood-police-use-grappler-in-arrest-of-suspect-tied-to-attempted-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88193\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood police use \u2018Grappler\u2019 in arrest of suspect tied to attempted homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>New video shows cops using &#8216;grappler&#8217; to help takedown suspect in Hollywood  New video obtained by Local 10 News on Thursday shows cops using a &#8220;grappler&#8221; to help takedown suspect in Hollywood nearly two weeks ago.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 Hollywood police recently used a specialized vehicle-stopping device known as a \u201cGrappler\u201d to make an arrest in an attempted homicide investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/18\/policia-de-hollywood-utiliza-grappler-en-el-arresto-de-sospechoso-vinculado-a-caso-de-intento-de-homicidio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/18\/policia-de-hollywood-utiliza-grappler-en-el-arresto-de-sospechoso-vinculado-a-caso-de-intento-de-homicidio\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police released video showing the incident, which occurred Dec. 6, when officers located a vehicle wanted in connection with a possible attempted homicide out of Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers said they tracked the car and deployed the Grappler, successfully bringing the vehicle to a controlled stop before placing a male suspect in handcuffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grappler is a law-enforcement tool designed to end vehicle pursuits by wrapping a net around a car\u2019s tires, gradually slowing it until it can no longer move. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The device allows officers to stop fleeing vehicles while reducing the risk of serious crashes, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News previously explained how the Grappler works after Hollywood police used it in 2023 to stop a yellow Camaro that investigators said had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JNNZp2X1Xp0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JNNZp2X1Xp0\">carjacked by teenagers.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In that case, officers used the device to end a pursuit and safely take the suspects into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not immediately release additional details about the suspect or the attempted homicide case connected to the December incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has requested the suspect\u2019s arrest report from the Hollywood Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM Updated:\u00a0December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM New video shows cops using &#8216;grappler&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-88193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","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\/88193","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=88193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}