{"id":396403,"date":"2026-09-11T01:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:10:24","slug":"body-found-floating-near-st-pete-pier-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396403\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Found Floating Near St. Pete Pier: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A man&#8217;s body was found floating in waters near the St. Pete Pier on Tuesday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/body-found-floating-near-st-pete-pier-investigation-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WFLA reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the St. Petersburg Police Department&#8217;s Marine Patrol Unit recovered the man&#8217;s body just before 2 p.m., bringing it to the marina, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/body-found-water-st-pete-pier-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Fox 13<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/stpete\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>While detectives work to identify the man, the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner will determine his cause of death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/st-petersburg\/2026\/09\/08\/st-pete-pier-dead-body-water-pinellas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Tampa Bay Times said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Patch has contacted St. Petersburg police for additional information. <\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story that will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A man&#8217;s body was found floating in waters near the St. Pete Pier on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-396403","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\/396403","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=396403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}