{"id":134562,"date":"2026-01-28T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:54:08","slug":"north-fort-myers-man-75-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134562\/","title":{"rendered":"North Fort Myers man, 75, arrested on child pornography charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A 75-year-old North Fort Myers man was arrested Monday on multiple charges related to the possession of child pornography, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies say investigators received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding an IP address in North Fort Myers linked to the material.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say detectives made contact with Michael Hale, 75, who admitted to collecting child pornography since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple electronic devices were seized from the home and were found to contain child pornography, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Hale was arrested and charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A 75-year-old North Fort Myers man was arrested Monday on multiple charges related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-134562","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134562","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=134562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}