{"id":237123,"date":"2026-04-18T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:05:07","slug":"baton-rouge-man-missing-since-march-identified-as-body-recovered-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237123\/","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge man missing since March identified as body recovered in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILTON, FL \u2014 A Baton Rouge man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/united-cajun-navy-joins-search-for-baton-rouge-man-last-seen-in-along-i-10-in-florida-in-march\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing since March 25<\/a> has been identified as a body recovered in Florida several days later, Florida deputies said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grant Brignac was last seen leaving the scene of a crash on I-10 near mile marker 18 in Santa Rosa County, Florida, on March 25. The Santa Rosa Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Brignac had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Friday, Santa Rosa deputies said a dead male found beneath the Garcon Point Bridge on March 30 was identified as Brignac based on DNA evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking the community to keep the Brignac Family in their thoughts and respect their privacy,&#8221; the Santa Rosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILTON, FL \u2014 A Baton Rouge man missing since March 25 has been identified as a body recovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-237123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237123","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=237123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}