{"id":258643,"date":"2026-05-05T01:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:39:26","slug":"body-found-in-tampa-retention-pond-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258643\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Tampa retention pond, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week\u2019s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014An investigation is underway after a man\u2019s body was found in a retention pond, the Tampa Police Department announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded Monday to the 2200 block of N. Westshore Blvd regarding a body in the water around 7:51 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arriving, officers located a dead adult male and members of the Tampa police dive team recovered the body.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives are currently working to confirm the identity of the man and notify his next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Stay up to date on the latest from News Channel 8 on-air and on the go with the free <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week\u2019s top headlines in Tampa Bay TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014An investigation is underway after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2808,135,137,136,3793,567],"class_list":["post-258643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-retention-pond","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258643","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=258643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}