{"id":207018,"date":"2026-03-26T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:25:06","slug":"cape-coral-man-accused-of-threatening-neighbor-with-sword-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral man accused of threatening neighbor with sword | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral man was arrested after police said he threatened a neighbor with a sword during a dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral Police officers responded to the 1800 block of Everest Parkway around 6:57 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a report of a disturbance involving a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The caller told police that a man, later identified as Raul Elosegui Fernandez, threatened them with a sword before fleeing in a white Chevrolet pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Raul Elosegui Fernandez - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that a dispute between neighbors escalated when Fernandez retrieved a tan-handled sword with a roughly three-foot metal blade from his truck. Fernandez raised the sword above his shoulder and approached the victim while making threatening statements.<\/p>\n<p>The victim retreated inside and called police. Officers later located Fernandez&#8217;s truck at his Southwest Sixth Place residence, where the sword was visible inside.<\/p>\n<p>The sword was seized as evidence. Fernandez was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral man was arrested after police said he threatened a neighbor with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,212,94897],"class_list":["post-207018","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","tag-sword"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207018","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=207018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}