{"id":394027,"date":"2026-09-08T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:47:04","slug":"body-found-in-water-near-the-pier-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394027\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in water near The Pier in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; St. Petersburg police are investigating after a deceased adult man was found floating in the water near The Pier on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The body was spotted shortly before 2 p.m., according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/05\/sheriffs-office-investigating-after-human-remains-recovered-near-sunshine-skyway-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/05\/sheriffs-office-investigating-after-human-remains-recovered-near-sunshine-skyway-bridge\/\">Sheriff\u2019s Office Investigating After Human Remains Recovered Near Sunshine Skyway Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">St. Petersburg Marine Patrol recovered the body and brought it to the marina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators are working to identify the man. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No additional details were immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; St. Petersburg police are investigating after a deceased adult man was found floating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[157227,157229,157230,202,204,203,199,201,157228,200,142872],"class_list":["post-394027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-body-found-the-pier","tag-deceased-man-tuesday","tag-medical-examiner-cause-of-death","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-marine-patrol","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394027","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=394027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}