{"id":394501,"date":"2026-09-09T06:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:29:14","slug":"body-found-floating-near-st-pete-pier-police-investigating-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394501\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found floating near St. Pete Pier; police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man&#8217;s body was brought to the marina by the St. Petersburg Marine Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 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>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>Once 10 Tampa Bay News arrived on scene around 2:15 p.m., the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>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":"The man&#8217;s body was brought to the marina by the St. Petersburg Marine Patrol. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-394501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394501","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=394501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}