{"id":313039,"date":"2026-06-19T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:18:08","slug":"cape-coral-rowing-club-says-its-facility-was-burglarized-spray-painted-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313039\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Rowing Club says its facility was burglarized, spray painted | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Cape Coral Rowing Club says its temporary facility was targeted in an apparent burglary during the early morning hours Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1KqyhfdWf1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a Facebook post<\/a> from the Cape Coral Rowing Club, a couple of people drove a work barge to the club&#8217;s dock and spray-painted over a security camera and motion-detecting dock light before carrying out the theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">The nonprofit organization said marine batteries were stolen from its safety boats and that an enclosed trailer and storage shed were broken into.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Cape+Coral+Police+Department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral Police Department<\/a> confirmed to WINK News that it is actively investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">&#8220;After almost 20 years of quietly and successfully serving our community without incident, our temporary facility was violated by burglars in the early hours of the morning,&#8221; the club said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1691\">The club also said its cameras captured the boat and its captain before the camera was spray-painted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">WINK News has reached out to the Cape Coral Police Department and the Cape Coral Rowing Club for additional information and will update this story as more details become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Cape Coral Rowing Club says its temporary facility was targeted in an apparent burglary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-313039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313039","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=313039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}