{"id":109407,"date":"2026-01-07T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109407\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:28:07","slug":"cape-coral-police-investigate-armed-robbery-at-jewelry-store-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109407\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral police investigate armed robbery at jewelry store | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CAPE CORAL, Fla.\u2014The Cape Coral Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/cape-coral-police-conducting-active-investigation-in-neighborhood\/article_1631690c-0327-4cbe-a48f-e600967ec630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tuesday at a jewelry store<\/a> located at 110 NE 2nd Pl.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A heavy police presence was reported Tuesday morning, when authorities closed the business down to begin their investigation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Cape Coral police, the victim of the robbery had not sustained serious injuries from the altercation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police tape was draped around the store\u2019s perimeter for hours, eventually coming down and replaced with a sign reading, &#8220;The store is temporarily closed. Sorry for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News arrived on the scene, where reporter Paul Dolan interviewed witnesses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I moved here thinking Cape Coral was safe, and I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of these lately,&#8221; said Cape Coral resident Katrina Sroufe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Heather Graves, inside the nearby Diamond Spa and Nails Salon, shared her experience.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;A lot of cops filled up the parking lot,&#8221; said Graves. &#8220;And then all of a sudden, the cops came right up to our door, and they were like, &#8216;You guys need to all go, because something is about to pop off here.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police provided an additional update regarding this investigation, saying, \u201cBecause of how quickly this investigation is developing, that is all we can release at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News will continue to provide updates to this story whenever new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla.\u2014The Cape Coral Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred on Tuesday at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-109407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}