{"id":226326,"date":"2026-05-10T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226326\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:59:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-five-hospitalized-after-exposure-to-an-unknown-substance-during-police-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226326\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Five Hospitalized After Exposure To An Unknown Substance During Police Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An Island Park man was arrested Saturday, and while being taken into custody, exposed himself and four police officers to an unknown substance. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, officers responded to a disturbance at a residence around 4 p.m. Upon arrival, they learned there was a verbal argument between Michael Leonetti and a 62-year-old individual.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the argument escalated, and Leonetti allegedly pushed the older man to the floor and punched him in the head. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the victim, fearing for his safety, told Leonetti he was calling the police. Leonetti then allegedly took the man\u2019s phone and threw it against a wall, damaging the phone and leaving a hole in the wall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">During the investigation, police say Leonetti was found in possession of a pill bottle containing an unknown substance. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Four police officers and Leonetti were taken to the hospital for exposure to that unknown substance. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is charged with two-counts of criminal mischief, menacing and assault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Island Park man was arrested Saturday, and while being taken into custody, exposed himself and four police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-226326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}