{"id":382540,"date":"2026-08-27T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:58:07","slug":"fort-myers-police-search-for-missing-teen-mom-and-her-infant-daughter-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382540\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers police search for missing teen mom and her infant daughter | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmpolice.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Myers Police Department<\/a> is searching for a missing 17-year-old and her infant daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">The department says Wilbelys Lopez Candelario was last seen with her 6-month-old daughter, Marbelys Lopez, at 3650 Michigan Avenue. Wilbelys was wearing a black blouse and gray pants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">Wilbelys is approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. Detectives are working the missing persons case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">FMPD says while the circumstances do not indicate that Wilbelys or her infant daughter are necessarily in danger at this time, their ages make this a matter of heightened urgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-3 overflow-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-sm\">The department said it wants to locate both of them as soon as possible to ensure their safety and well-being. Anyone with information regarding Wilbelys or Marbelys&#8217; whereabouts is asked to contact the Fort Myers Police Department at 239-321-7700.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The Fort Myers Police Department is searching for a missing 17-year-old and her infant daughter.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,16399],"class_list":["post-382540","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-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382540","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=382540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}