{"id":357385,"date":"2026-07-30T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357385\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:16:15","slug":"st-pete-beach-hotel-owner-bar-owner-arrested-for-dumping-toxic-mothballs-on-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357385\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Beach Hotel Owner, Bar Owner Arrested For Dumping Toxic Mothballs On Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrested Robert Czyszczon, 47, owner of the Plaza Beach Hotel, and Christopher Monroe, 53, owner of Chris&#8217;s Beachside Bar, following an investigation into the April incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/environment\/2026\/07\/29\/st-pete-beach-mothball-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Tampa Bay Times said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Both men are charged with felony commercial littering for the purpose of economic gain and a misdemeanor count of attempting to take a listed imperiled species, <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/07\/29\/st--pete-beach-hotel-owner-accused-of-dumping-toxic-mothballs-on-beach?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bay News 9 reported.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrested Robert Czyszczon, 47, owner of the Plaza Beach Hotel, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-357385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357385","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=357385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}