{"id":37742,"date":"2025-11-07T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:42:07","slug":"police-investigating-cause-of-death-of-man-found-floating-in-st-lucie-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37742\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating cause of death of man found floating in St. Lucie River |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Police are investigating the cause of death of a man found floating in the St. Lucie River on Nov. 7 at about 8:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, two men were fishing on the boardwalk under the Twin Bridges on Southeast Port St. Lucie Boulevard near the Botanical Gardens when they saw a dead body floating in the river.<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie Police Marine Unit responded and retrieved the body from the river. It is unknown how long the body was in the river, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Cause of death will be determined at an autopsy, police said. Police also are working to establish identification of the body.<\/p>\n<p>More information will be shared as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have information or video of the incident is asked to call Det. Mark Woodruff at 772-871-5001 or Treasure Coast Crimestoppers at 800-273-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Police are investigating the cause of death of a man found floating in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-37742","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\/37742","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=37742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}