{"id":181695,"date":"2026-03-07T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:37:06","slug":"cape-coral-homeowner-arrested-for-pointing-gun-at-wildlife-officer-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181695\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral homeowner arrested for pointing gun at wildlife officer | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. &#8211; A tense situation unfolded in South Cape Coral when a homeowner allegedly pointed a handgun at a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when the officer arrived at a residence to address a wildlife violation complaint.<\/p>\n<p>After the homeowner retreated inside, FWC officers, with help from the Florida Highway Patrol and the Cape Coral Police Department, set up a perimeter around the home.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner, identified as\u00a0John Battista Quartapella, eventually surrendered peacefully and was arrested for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"JOHN BATTISTA QUARTAPELLA - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, with FWC leading the efforts. No further details are available at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. &#8211; A tense situation unfolded in South Cape Coral when a homeowner allegedly pointed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4469,3961,28,35986,85789,27909,1224,85790],"class_list":["post-181695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police-department","tag-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-florida","tag-highway-patrol","tag-john-battista-quartapella","tag-law-enforcement-officer","tag-officer","tag-wildlife-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695","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=181695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}