{"id":380200,"date":"2026-08-25T00:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380200\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:34:13","slug":"fort-myers-man-accused-of-setting-fire-to-home-with-people-inside-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380200\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers man accused of setting fire to home with people inside | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=fort+myers+police+department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Myers Police<\/a> arrested a 24-year-old man after he allegedly set fire to an occupied home Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a residential fire in the 100 block of Williams Street. When they arrived, they learned someone had intentionally started a fire outside the home while people were inside.<\/p>\n<p>The fire caused significant damage to the exterior of the residence and damaged several items, according to a press release from Fort Myers Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained Mario Cabrera at the scene. During the investigation, Cabrera made statements taking responsibility for starting the fire, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera was arrested and transported to the Lee County Jail, where he was booked on a charge of first-degree arson.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Fort Myers Police arrested a 24-year-old man after he allegedly set fire to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3737,356,3509],"class_list":["post-380200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers-police","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380200","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=380200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}