{"id":258660,"date":"2026-05-05T01:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:51:27","slug":"tampa-police-find-mans-body-in-retention-pond-near-westshore-boulevard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258660\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police find man&#8217;s body in retention pond near Westshore Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police are investigating after a body was found in a retention pond Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived, they found a man dead. TPD&#8217;s dive team recovered his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators are on-scene gathering evidence to determine the circumstances leading up to this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa police are investigating after a body was found in a retention pond Monday morning. Officials responded just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71313,112101,2808,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-258660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chad-robertson","tag-north-westshore-boulevard","tag-retention-pond","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258660","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=258660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}