{"id":242775,"date":"2026-04-23T04:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242775\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:01:28","slug":"man-uses-beer-keg-to-break-into-southwest-florida-smoke-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242775\/","title":{"rendered":"Man uses beer keg to break into southwest Florida smoke shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla.  \u2014 Deputies in southwest Florida are searching for a thief who used an unorthodox tool to break into a smoke shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/22\/hombre-usa-barril-de-cerveza-para-irrumpir-en-tienda-de-humo-en-el-suroeste-de-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/22\/hombre-usa-barril-de-cerveza-para-irrumpir-en-tienda-de-humo-en-el-suroeste-de-florida\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cameras caught the criminal using a beer keg to break into Smoke and More, located along US-41 in North Fort Myers, just after midnight Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shows the man throw the keg through a glass door of the smoke shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said the suspect stole several Raz brand vapes from the business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is urged to call Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Deputies in southwest Florida are searching for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-242775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242775","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=242775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}