{"id":267950,"date":"2026-05-12T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:00:10","slug":"detectives-charge-man-with-capital-felony-lewd-or-lascivious-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267950\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives Charge Man With Capital Felony Lewd or Lascivious Molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764950231_728_News-Release-Header-NEW-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral, FL \u2013 Detectives with the Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit have charged Luis Andres De Los Santos (DOB 11\/03\/1981) with two counts of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation for offenses involving victims under the age of twelve.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began on April 1, 2026 when the Cape Coral Police Department received a report regarding possible sexual offenses against a child. Special Victims Unit detectives immediately assumed the investigation, conducted multiple interviews, and gathered physical and digital evidence related to the allegations. Detectives uncovered that there were two victims, both known De Los Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the evidence obtained, detectives authored a warrant for De Los Santos, which was reviewed and approved by the State Attorney\u2019s Office for the 20th Judicial Circuit. De Los Santos was taken into custody by the is \u00a0Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force, Fort Myers Office and transported to the Lee County Jail, where he is being held on the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>\u20132 counts, Lewd or Lascivious Molestation, F.S.S. 800.04(5)(b)(1), Life Felony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NR-Mugshot-Template-55.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral, FL \u2013 Detectives with the Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit have charged Luis Andres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-267950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267950","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=267950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}