SWAT team arrests Miramar man accused of beating pregnant woman in IHOP parking lot

A man brutally beat a pregnant woman in an IHOP parking lot Thursday afternoon, then fled officers who responded, police say.

Ayyed Fanus, 23, now faces charges of aggravated battery, violation of an injunction, obstruction, resisting an officer without violence, and carrying a concealed firearm.

Miramar police were called to a domestic battery a little before 1 p.m. Thursday, where they found Fanus and a “brutally battered pregnant female” in the parking lot of the IHOP at 7990 Miramar Parkway, said Tania Rues, a spokesperson for the Miramar police department. When officers approached, he fled towards the 7800 block of Granada Boulevard.

Officers were told that Fanus had a concealed firearm. The Miramar SWAT team “happened to be training close by” and responded, Rues said. They found him hiding outside a house and apprehended him.

Fanus had been facing charges of domestic battery in a separate case filed against him one year ago. His girlfriend told police at the time that they had an argument because he wanted to look at her phone and she refused, so he choked her and beat her with his gun, according to the probable cause affidavit.

It is unclear if the victim in that case is the same woman Fanus is now accused of beating. The pregnant victim’s name is withheld under Marsy’s Law, a 2018 voter-approved constitutional amendment that allows crime victims to shield their names and identifying information from the public.

Fanus was scheduled to appear in court for the January 2022 case next week.

He was being held in Broward Main Jail on Thursday, awaiting a bond hearing.