{"id":257846,"date":"2026-05-04T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257846\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:47:10","slug":"man-found-dead-in-retention-pond-near-international-plaza-in-tampa-tpd-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257846\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in retention pond near International Plaza in Tampa, TPD investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vlcsnap-2026-05-04-10h18m29s384.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A body was discovered in a retention pound near International Plaza on Monday morning, according to the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officers say they responded to the 2200 block of N. Westshore Blvd just before 8 a.m. after receiving a report of a body in the water. Investigators found a deceased adult Black male and members of the Tampa Police Dive Team responded to the scene to recover the body.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vlcsnap-2026-05-04-10h18m36s177.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Detectives are working to identify the man and notify his family, according to TPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This is an ongoing investigation and more details are expected to be released as more evidence is gathered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected from the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A body was discovered in a retention pound near International Plaza on Monday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,629,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,628],"class_list":["post-257846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257846","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=257846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}