{"id":383943,"date":"2026-08-28T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383943\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:58:17","slug":"police-dispel-active-shooter-rumor-in-port-st-lucie-after-swat-operation-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383943\/","title":{"rendered":"Police dispel active shooter rumor in Port St. Lucie after SWAT operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pslpolice.com\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port St. Lucie Police Department<\/a> is clearing up an inaccurate social media post circulating Thursday claiming there was an active shooting near U.S. 1 and Walton Road.<\/p>\n<p>PSLPD said it received no calls for service involving an active shooter. The activity residents may have seen was related to a search warrant executed by the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office SWAT team at a home on Southeast West Dunbrooke Circle as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/florida\/grand-jury-report-10-milllion-medical-settlement-finds-misused-hope-florida-casey-desantis-nonprofit-amendment-3-recreational-marijuana-florida-ag-james-uthmeier-ashley-moodyl-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Report finds $10M Medicaid settlement funds misused through Hope Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While some residents reported hearing gunshots, law enforcement said the sounds were flash-bang devices used during the operation. The yelling heard in the area was officers giving commands to occupants leaving the home.<\/p>\n<p>The Port St. Lucie Police Department gave no further details on the criminal investigation officers were responding to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Port St. Lucie Police Department is clearing up an inaccurate social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-383943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383943","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=383943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}