{"id":357571,"date":"2026-07-30T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:47:10","slug":"man-76-found-dead-in-plantation-lake-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357571\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 76, found dead in Plantation lake, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 9:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>The body of a 76-year-old man was pulled from a lake in Plantation Thursday morning, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla.  \u2014 The body of a 76-year-old man was pulled from a lake behind a home in Plantation Thursday morning, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/30\/policia-hallan-muerto-a-hombre-de-76-anos-en-lago-de-plantation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/30\/policia-hallan-muerto-a-hombre-de-76-anos-en-lago-de-plantation\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Plantation police, officers responded to the area of 7800 NW 11th Court after a 76-year-old man was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the search, one of the man\u2019s shoes was located in a nearby lake,\u201d the PPPD posted on social media. \u201cThe Plantation Fire Department Dive Team and a Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Bloodhound K-9 assisted officers in searching the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police confirmed that the man was ultimately found dead in the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the victim\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM Updated:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 9:29 AM The body of a 76-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-357571","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\/357571","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=357571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}