{"id":697605,"date":"2026-06-11T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:29:09","slug":"epd-man-arrested-after-breaking-post-office-windows-attacking-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697605\/","title":{"rendered":"EPD: Man arrested after breaking post office windows, attacking officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Evansville Police Department officials say a man is in jail after he broke the windows of a post office and attacked a police officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a police report, officers responded to the post office in the 800 block of Sycamore Street for reports of the bank\u2019s windows that had been shattered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say when police arrived on scene, they found a man, later identified 42-year-old Junior Desir, walking by their cruiser. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say when officers rolled their windows down, Desir reached in, grabbed an officer\u2019s arm and tugged on it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say he was quickly placed into handcuffs and later admitted he broke the windows at the post office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He\u2019s being held in the Vanderburgh County jail without bond and faces the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>Battery Against a Public Safety OfficerCriminal Mischief<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Junior Desir\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PBBSDRSXMRH5XB2GUY25I44FOE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"549\" \/>Junior Desir(Vanderburgh County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/page\/14-news-streaming-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wfie apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ABJKZTA4RCT5CI42747VCTX3M.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Evansville Police Department officials say a man is in jail after he broke the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-697605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}