Man arrested, accused of attacking deputy, dog with metal pole at Dania Beach hotel

A man attacked a deputy with a metal pole, then barricaded himself in a Dania Beach hotel room Wednesday before beating the K-9 that apprehended him, according to the Broward Sheriff ’s Office.

The man was hospitalized due to the altercation with the dog.

Deputies arrested Jean P. Requena, 34, of Miami, on charges of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, injuring a police dog, trespass after warning and resisting with violence.

A little before 6 a.m. Broward Sheriff’s Office Dania Beach district deputies responded to a call at the Rodeway Inn and Suites at 2440 State Road 84, according to the probable cause affidavit. The hotel serves travelers using the nearby Fort Lauderdale airport.

A hotel guest had said that someone who was not staying at the hotel had locked himself in one of the rooms and refused to open the door.

Deputies and hotel management met with the registered guest of the room, who said that Requena had come to the hotel to visit him. He had asked Requena to leave, and the two had a physical struggle, but Requena did not leave.

Deputies tried to talk to Requena, but he had shut himself in the room and locked the door multiple times, according to the affidavit. He began to respond with “numerous irrational and incomprehensible statements,” leading deputies to ask if he needed medical assistance, affording to the affidavit. He said yes.

Fire Rescue responded and forced the door open. Requena began to scream and “appeared to have something concealed within the sheet” wrapped around his hands and arms, the affidavit states.

When two deputies tried to remove the sheet, Requena armed himself with a metal rod from the window and began to strike both deputies with it, according to the affidavit. Deputies tried to use an electronic control device to subdue him, but he continued to resist.

After Requena struck one of the deputies in the head and face, the deputy shot his gun “in fear for his life as well as that of his fellow deputy,” the affidavit says. The gunfire did not strike Requena.

Requena fled to the bathroom. SWAT team and K-9 units responded to the hotel room, commanding him to leave and threatening to deploy a police dog to the bathroom if he did not.

When he remained in the bathroom, deputies sent in the dog. Requena then struck the dog multiple times with the metal rod before the dog overpowered him.

Requena was taken into custody and hospitalized, according to the affidavit.

The deputy was also hospitalized and released after treatment, the Sheriff ’s Office said. The Sheriff ’s Office did not provide further details on the injuries that Requena, the deputy or the dog received.

Requena was previously charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer in 2021, Miami-Dade court records show. The State Attorney’s Office withheld the charges in exchange for probation.

Requena was also charged twice before with trespassing after warning, once in 2017 and once in 2015. The 2017 charge was dismissed, and he was convicted of the 2015 charge.