{"id":279416,"date":"2026-05-21T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:46:10","slug":"additional-theft-victim-identified-in-case-involving-cape-coral-house-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279416\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Theft Victim Identified in Case Involving Cape Coral House Cleaner"},"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s Property Crimes Unit has identified an additional victim connected to Donald Lee Claybaugh (DOB 12\/28\/1966), who was arrested earlier this week for stealing jewelry from a home he was hired to clean and pawning the items for cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 19, 2026, officers responded to a report of a past theft in Southeast Cape Coral. The victim reported that between May 2024 and February 2025, Claybaugh, who had been hired to clean the home, stole cash from a bedroom. The victim later confirmed the theft after marking currency and confronting Claybaugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claybaugh has since been charged with Grand Theft and remains in custody at the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who believes they may have been victimized by Claybaugh is asked to call the Cape Coral Police Department and file a report at 239-574-3223.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capecops.com\/ccpd\/contact-us\/\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NR-Mugshot-Template-59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s Property Crimes Unit has identified an additional victim connected to Donald Lee Claybaugh&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-279416","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\/279416","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=279416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279416\/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=279416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}