{"id":297436,"date":"2026-06-05T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297436\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:17:08","slug":"police-woman-vanishes-off-dania-beach-washes-ashore-dead-in-hollywood-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297436\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Woman vanishes off Dania Beach, washes ashore dead in Hollywood Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DANIA BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A woman was snorkeling or diving in the ocean off Dania Beach when she vanished and later washed ashore dead at Hollywood Beach, according to the Hollywood Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/04\/policia-mujer-desaparece-frente-a-dania-beach-y-aparece-muerta-en-la-orilla-de-hollywood-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/04\/policia-mujer-desaparece-frente-a-dania-beach-y-aparece-muerta-en-la-orilla-de-hollywood-beach\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman was swimming on Wednesday in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridastateparks.org\/mizell\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridastateparks.org\/mizell\">Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park<\/a> at 6503 North Ocean Drive, according to Deanna Bettineschi, a spokeswoman for the HPD. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDetectives have identified the female and are working to make next of kin notifications,\u201d Bettineschi wrote in a statement on Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood police officers responded to a 911 call at about 8 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/03\/police-body-washes-ashore-on-hollywood-beach\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/03\/police-body-washes-ashore-on-hollywood-beach\/\">on Wednesday<\/a> after witnesses saw the body, east of the North Boardwalk and south of the Hollywood North Beach Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe saw two fishermen and then what looked like a body on the beach &#8230; We saw them drag her up &#8230; it was disheartening,\u201d Gianluca Fiore, a witness, told Local 10 News on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There were Hollywood police officers on and off the beach late into the night, near North Surf Road, between New Mexico and Thomas streets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Broward County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office was conducting an autopsy. Florida Fish &amp; Wildlife Conservation investigators worked with Hollywood detectives, and their investigation was ongoing on Thursday afternoon, according to Bettineschi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about the case to call 954-764-4357 or 954-967-4567, or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related reports <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Janine Stanwood\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/21e83aab-f6c0-4437-b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Janine Stanwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Janine Stanwood is an Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM Updated:\u00a0June 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-297436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297436","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=297436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}