{"id":33762,"date":"2025-11-05T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:04:09","slug":"st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-body-found-floating-in-taylor-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33762\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigating body found floating in Taylor Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office (SLCSO) has launched a homicide investigation, after a body was discovered in the Taylor Creek spillway on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say around 10:30 a.m., the Patrol Operations Bureau and SLCSO Marine Unit responded to the 1800 block of North U.S. Highway 1, after reports of a body floating in the water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The person was deceased and is described as a Black male with dreadlocks. Investigators are working to confirm his identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to contact St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 772-462-7300 or email CrimeTips@stluciesheriff.com. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office (SLCSO) has launched a homicide investigation, after a body was discovered in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-33762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33762","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=33762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}