{"id":240478,"date":"2026-04-21T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240478\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:34:08","slug":"florida-man-drowns-after-leg-gets-caught-in-rope-falls-into-water-before-boat-trip-with-son-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240478\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man drowns after leg gets caught in rope, falls into water before boat trip with son, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 75-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida<\/a> man drowned over the weekend after deputies say he got caught in some rope while preparing to go boating with his son and fell into the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolusiaSheriff\/posts\/pfbid0Rw9fNkjJs8edNcTEGBBiDzej6SQiAzRarkNanpYEApnUc7bMQVKcR39VHFnkyp1Al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>, deputies were called to a boat dock on Sher Lane in DeBary, north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/orlando\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando<\/a>, just before 10:30 a.m. Saturday after someone reported finding a body in the water between two boats.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said that the victim&#8217;s left leg was wrapped around a rope that was being used to secure the boat to the dock.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as Jerry Capo, of DeBary.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said that Capo&#8217;s son arrived at the scene and told deputies that he and his father had planned on going out on the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said there were no signs of foul play during the investigation, and it was determined that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/drowning\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drowning<\/a> was an accident.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old Florida man drowned over the weekend after deputies say he got caught in some rope while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2805,28,30,29,139],"class_list":["post-240478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-drowning","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240478","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=240478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}