{"id":94042,"date":"2025-12-23T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:44:06","slug":"three-georgia-jail-escapees-caught-in-broward-county-held-on-kidnapping-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94042\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Georgia jail escapees caught in Broward County; held on kidnapping charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Three fugitives who escaped from a jail in DeKalb County, Georgia, were arrested early Tuesday morning in Broward County, federal authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s Miami Field Office announced the arrests of Naod Yohannes, 25, Stevenson Charles, 24, and Yusuf Minor, 31, following a multi-agency manhunt that began after the trio escaped custody on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the three men were taken into custody without incident during the early morning hours of December 23 at a location in Broward County. They are now being held in federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators allege the suspects kidnapped a ride-share driver during their escape from the Georgia jail, leading to federal charges related to the incident. Officials said additional details on those charges are available through court records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/bodycam-florida-man-escapes-deputies-chokes-k9-and-gets-tased-after-attempted-burglary-lee-county-sheriffs-office-news-watch-video-florida-man-arrest-december-15-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BODYCAM: Florida man escapes deputies, chokes K-9, and gets tased after attempted burglary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The investigation involved multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the South Florida Violent Crime and Fugitive Task Force, and the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the investigation remains ongoing and that no further information will be released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Three fugitives who escaped from a jail in DeKalb County, Georgia, were arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-94042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94042","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=94042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}