{"id":377662,"date":"2026-08-21T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:32:13","slug":"cape-coral-police-arrest-76-year-old-male-for-lewd-and-lascivious-molestation-of-juvenile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377662\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Police Arrest 76-Year-Old Male for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of Juvenile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/News-Release-Header-NEW-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cape Coral, Fla \u2013 The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested Clinton Burton (DOB 07\/16\/1950) of Cape Coral, following an investigation into allegations of a sex offense involving a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CCPD Special Victims Unit investigated after the juvenile reported multiple incidents of egregious sexual abuse. The investigation revealed Burton would exchange sweet treats for sex acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a forensic interview and subsequent investigative efforts, detectives established probable cause for Burton\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 20, 2026, Clinton Burton was subsequently arrested for Lewd or Lascivious Molestation, in violation of Florida Statute \u00a7 800.04(5)(b), and transported to the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NR-Mugshot-Template-5-1024x281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-15163\" width=\"1155\" height=\"317\" title=\"NR Mugshot Template (5)\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral, Fla \u2013 The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested Clinton Burton (DOB 07\/16\/1950) of Cape Coral,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-377662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377662","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=377662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}