{"id":364746,"date":"2026-08-06T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:02:08","slug":"police-identify-woman-found-dead-2-miles-off-boca-raton-coast-as-fort-lauderdale-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364746\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify woman found dead 2 miles off Boca Raton coast as Fort Lauderdale resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boca Raton police have identified the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/palm-beach-county\/region-s-palm-beach-county\/authorities-investigating-after-body-found-in-ocean-off-coast-of-boca-raton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">woman found dead<\/a> about 2 miles off the city&#8217;s coast Tuesday morning as Patricia Brennan, 63, of Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brennan was found about two miles east of 2500 N. Ocean Boulevard just after 8 a.m. after a boater spotted the body. The Boca Raton Police Department, Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and the U.S. Coast Guard all responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It&#8217;s unclear if foul play is suspected or if Brennan was reported missing prior to her death. WPTV has reached out to police to request more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The death remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Lima at 561-620-6246.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boca Raton police have identified the woman found dead about 2 miles off the city&#8217;s coast Tuesday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-364746","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\/364746","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=364746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}