{"id":157484,"date":"2026-02-16T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157484\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:01:07","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-accused-of-threating-to-kill-co-workers-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157484\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man accused of threating to kill co-workers | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a Lehigh Acres man accused of writing an electronic threat to kill his co-workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the suspect, Timothy West, was arrested over the past weekend after receiving a report regarding threatening messages.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deputies say that West had engaged in an argument with his co-workers during the past week. After the argument, West allegedly began sending text messages and posting on social media, making threats to harm a coworker and others at the workplace.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One of West\u2019s co-workers, not affiliated with the conflict, provided the above details to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following their investigation, deputies located West at his home and arrested him. He is being charged with a written electronic threat to kill\/mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Timothy West 2026-fixed - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">West remains in Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a Lehigh Acres man accused of writing an electronic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-157484","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\/157484","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=157484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}