{"id":110716,"date":"2026-01-08T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110716\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:30:07","slug":"loaded-firearm-found-in-students-backpack-at-trafalgar-elementary-school-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110716\/","title":{"rendered":"Loaded firearm found in student&#8217;s backpack at Trafalgar Elementary School | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL &#8211; A loaded firearm was discovered in a student&#8217;s backpack at Trafalgar Elementary School in Cape Coral on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s screening system, OPENGATE, alerted the staff and prompted law enforcement to search the student&#8217;s backpack, where law enforcement found the firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the student was isolated when the firearm was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Police Department later arrested the student&#8217;s father on charges related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL &#8211; A loaded firearm was discovered in a student&#8217;s backpack at Trafalgar Elementary School in Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-110716","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\/110716","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=110716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}