{"id":211418,"date":"2016-12-29T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T20:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211418"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:03:16","slug":"battery-pregnant-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/battery-pregnant-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Allegedly Punching Pregnant Girlfriend in Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MINNEOLA &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A Minneola man was arrested early Thursday morning after allegedly punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach according to arrest reports.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to a Minneola home on Ridgecrest Loop just after 1:00 am on Thursday morning in response to a call about a domestic battery.<\/p>\n<p>The caller told dispatchers that the defendant, later identified as 38-year-old Joel Cruz, &#8220;punched her and possibly has a knife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, the victim stated that she and Cruz were in an argument because she had told him she wanted to get a roommate to help with the household expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The victim stated Cruz then became angry stating that &#8220;there will be no other man to move in, he is the only man in the house&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During the argument, the victim stated that Cruz became so angry that he punched her in the stomach knowing that she was pregnant with his child.<\/p>\n<p>She also told deputies that this is an ongoing issue but has not reported it before because she was afraid of Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was arrested and charged with aggravated domestic battery. He was transported to the Lake County Jail where he is currently being held in lieu of a $5,000 bond.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEOLA &#8211;\u00a0A Minneola man was arrested early Thursday morning after allegedly punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach according to arrest reports. Deputies responded to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,6,1],"tags":[1078,215,217,2319,2053,1428,79,80,750,1208,757],"class_list":["post-211418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-abuse","tag-arrest","tag-battery","tag-cruz","tag-deputies","tag-domestic","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lcso","tag-minneola","tag-pregnant","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/joel-cruz.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}