{"id":257769,"date":"2026-05-04T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257769\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:49:12","slug":"tampa-police-find-mans-body-in-retention-pond-near-westshore-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257769\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police find man&#8217;s body in retention pond near Westshore Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are investigating what led up to a man&#8217;s body being found in a retention pond Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police are investigating after a body was found in a retention pond Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Officials responded just before 8 a.m. to the area of North Westshore Boulevard regarding a report of a body in the water.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a man dead. TPD&#8217;s dive team recovered his body.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are currently working to confirm the man\u2019s identity, while the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office is working to determine the exact cause and manner of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are on-scene gathering evidence to determine the circumstances leading up to this incident.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials are investigating what led up to a man&#8217;s body being found in a retention pond Monday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-257769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257769","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=257769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}