{"id":395301,"date":"2026-09-10T00:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395301\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:13:31","slug":"body-found-floating-near-st-pete-pier-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395301\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found floating near St. Pete Pier; investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A dead man was found near the St. Petersburg Pier Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to St. Petersburg police, the man&#8217;s body was floating in the water shortly before 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Petersburg Marine Patrol brought the body to the marina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is not known who the man is at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The medical examiner&#8217;s office is working to determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Stay up to date on the latest from News Channel 8 on-air and on the go with the free <a data-ylk=\"slk:WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A dead man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[123882,202,204,203,199,201,200,157662,567],"class_list":["post-395301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-medical-examiner39s-office","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-pier","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395301","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=395301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}