{"id":354017,"date":"2026-07-27T19:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:20:06","slug":"active-death-investigation-underway-at-dog-beach-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354017\/","title":{"rendered":"Active death investigation underway at Dog Beach | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">BONITA SPRINGS, Fla (WINK) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Lee+County+Sheriff%27s+Office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> is on scene conducting an active death investigation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/parks\/beaches\/dogbeach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dog Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deputies arrived on the scene at around 2 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News contacted the sheriff\u2019s office regarding this investigation. Deputies say that while an active death investigation is ongoing, it remains unknown if a drowning occurred.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Early reports from the sheriff\u2019s office say the death does not appear suspicious at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reporter Bridget Bruchalski is en route to the scene, where she will\u00a0provide updates regarding this death investigation whenever new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stay tuned to <a class=\"x_ContentPasted0\" title=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BONITA SPRINGS, Fla (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office is on scene conducting an active death investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-354017","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\/354017","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=354017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}