{"id":150219,"date":"2026-02-10T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:31:07","slug":"man-arrested-accused-of-several-retail-thefts-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150219\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested. accused of several retail thefts | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral Police responded to a retail theft at Lowe\u2019s Home Improvement on Northeast Pine Island Road on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers met with store loss prevention, who had detained Michael Victor Nappa, identified by his Florida driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Michael Nappa 2026 - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy<br \/>\nLee County Jail<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed Nappa allegedly swapped barcodes to pay a lower price for items during self-checkout.<\/p>\n<p>Store personnel found the ripped barcode in Nappa&#8217;s pocket, which matched the discarded packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Loss prevention reported Nappa as a repeat offender with 10 prior theft incidents at two Lowe\u2019s locations in Cape Coral over a 120-day period.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents involved altering barcodes to pay lower prices for various items, totaling a reported loss of $958.73.<\/p>\n<p>Probable cause was established for Nappa&#8217;s arrest, and he was charged with retail theft, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Police responded to a retail theft at Lowe\u2019s Home Improvement on Northeast Pine Island Road on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-150219","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-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150219","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=150219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}