IONA, Fla. (WINK) – What started as a quiet morning of fishing ended with a 66-year-old man in jail after deputies say he grabbed a child near a retention pond in Iona.<\/p>\n
According to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, two boys, ages 11 and 12, were fishing Sunday morning near the Kelly Greens community when Gregory Schweibold approached them.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Schweibold came out of a nearby residence and spoke with the boys before the encounter escalated. Deputies say Schweibold grabbed one of the children by both arms and pulled him toward the water before taking the fishing pole he was holding.<\/p>\n
The child was able to get away, but investigators say Schweibold then chased the other boy while still holding the first fishing pole. That boy dropped his own fishing pole and ran.<\/p>\n
Deputies say video provided during the investigation showed Schweibold chasing one of the boys while holding a fishing pole. Investigators say another video showed him later walking with both fishing poles before they were left near the roadway.<\/p>\n
Hannah Loving, who lives near the retention pond, described the area as a quiet community where people are often seen golfing and families spend time outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing what happened yesterday is really shocking and surprising,\u201d Loving said. \u201cI live right on that retention pond. We see kids fish it sometimes, but it\u2019s never, like, bothering anyone or affecting anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loving said people do sometimes fish in the ponds despite rules against it, but she has never seen a disagreement over fishing turn into an altercation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s just kids trying to have fun doing a safe activity,\u201d Loving said. \u201cMaybe they\u2019re breaking a rule and they don\u2019t know that they\u2019re not supposed to be fishing there, but I don\u2019t think it should ever have to escalate to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loving said residents typically handle concerns by speaking with people or contacting the appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf something\u2019s happening that you think is breaking the rules, call the HOA or, you know, law enforcement, but never, never take it into your own hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
WINK News reached out to the golf course to clarify the rules surrounding fishing in the area and to request contact information for the community association. We have not yet heard back.<\/p>\n
Detectives said they located exterior cameras in the area that could have captured the incident and obtained a residential search warrant. According to the probable cause statement, Schweibold invoked his rights and did not speak with investigators about what happened.<\/p>\n
Schweibold was arrested and charged with robbery by sudden snatching without a deadly weapon and child abuse without great bodily harm.<\/p>\n
Court records included with the arrest paperwork show Schweibold is expected to appear in court on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IONA, Fla. (WINK) – What started as a quiet morning of fishing ended with a 66-year-old man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,1598,2094],"class_list":["post-388393","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-law-enforcement","tag-lee-county-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388393","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=388393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}