{"id":380060,"date":"2026-08-24T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:42:16","slug":"man-dies-after-struggle-with-st-petersburg-police-during-welfare-check-pcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380060\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Struggle With St. Petersburg Police During Welfare Check: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pepal had pre-existing medical conditions, the agency added. <\/p>\n<p>His cause of death will be made following an autopsy by the Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>One officer was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries sustained during the physical altercation with Pepal, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p>The Pinellas County Use of Deadly Force Investigative Task Force is investigating the incident. <\/p>\n<p>The names of the officers involved won\u2019t be released until 72 hours after the incident, under the new Marsy\u2019s Law, which took effect July 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pepal had pre-existing medical conditions, the agency added. His cause of death will be made following an autopsy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-380060","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\/380060","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=380060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}