{"id":394237,"date":"2026-09-09T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394237\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:46:25","slug":"body-found-floating-near-st-pete-pier-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394237\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found floating near St. Pete Pier; police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A body was spotted floating in the water near the St. Pete Pier on Tuesday afternoon, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The body was found shortly before 2 p.m. The St. Petersburg Marine Patrol arrived promptly and brought the man&#8217;s body to the marina, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once 10 Tampa Bay News arrived on scene around 2:15 p.m., the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation into the man&#8217;s identity is ongoing. Police say the medical examiner is working to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body was spotted floating in the water near the St. Pete Pier on Tuesday afternoon, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42906,202,204,203,199,201,200,23643],"class_list":["post-394237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-medical-examiner","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394237","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=394237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}