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FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Florida<\/a> father is back in jail after deputies said he gave his child acid.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office said they went to a Fort Myers grocery store around 5:45 a.m. to investigate reports of a child lying in the parking lot.<\/p>\n After being taken to an area hospital, deputies said the child told them that the father gave them acid.<\/p>\n According to LCSO, other children told deputies that their father would give them drugs and pressure them into using them.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The father, Jeffery Rivenburg, was located at a hotel, where deputies said they found fentanyl, LSD, cocaine and marijuana inside his room.<\/p>\n READ: 52 cats seized from Citrus County animal rescue volunteer\u2019s home that had dead cat in bathroom: CCSO<\/a><\/p>\n He was arrested and charged with two counts of child neglect without causing great bodily harm, trafficking fentanyl, trafficking LSD, possession of cocaine, and possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n Deputies said Rivenburg has been booked into jail more than 30 times for charges including multiple drug offenses, battery, theft, and burglary.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The age of the child is unknown.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Lee County Sheriff’s Office FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Florida father is back in jail after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-189244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189244","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=189244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}