{"id":94096,"date":"2025-12-23T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:32:08","slug":"1-injured-1-arrested-after-hollywood-neighbors-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94096\/","title":{"rendered":"1 injured, 1 arrested after Hollywood neighbors\u2019 dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7L5A5MOMIVC6DJMNOERQ5CCSQQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Barry Mesika Hollywood police officers arrested Barry Mesika on Dec. 21 in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A 59-year-old man faced a battery charge on Tuesday in Broward County after a dispute with a neighbor, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers arrested Barry Mesika on Dec. 21 after a neighbor accused him of pepper-spraying him in the eyes in Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim said they had \u201cbeen having a dispute over a parking space for a while now,\u201d a Hollywood police officer wrote, according to an arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mesika and the victim ran into each other, got into an argument, and Mesika shouted an expletive before pulling out the pepper spray, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue personnel responded to treat the victim at 4100 North 58 Ave., near Stirling Road, just east of North State Road Seven, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Court records show prosecutors filed a second-degree felony aggravated battery case against Mesika on Dec. 22. Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara Duffy was set to preside over the case. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandBarry Mesika Hollywood police officers arrested Barry Mesika on Dec. 21 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-94096","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\/94096","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=94096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}