{"id":414923,"date":"2026-09-30T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414923\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:46:37","slug":"martin-county-toddler-drowns-on-family-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414923\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County toddler drowns on family property"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toddler drowns in pond on family property in Martin County<\/p>\n

\"Angela<\/a>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a toddler.<\/p>\n

Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n

According to investigators, 23-month-old toddler Pablo Mendoza-Arrojo drowned in the area of Southeast Darling Street and Southeast Taylor Drive in Port Salerno and was found unresponsive in a pond on his family\u2019s property in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

The toddler was outside in the yard with family members shortly after 5 p.m. when he went missing for a short time. According to investigators, the child slipped out of sight for a short time. When Pablo\u2019s mother and aunt realized he was missing, they began a frantic search and ultimately found him in the pond. <\/p>\n

The family rushed him to Cleveland Clinic South, but despite lifesaving efforts, he was pronounced dead in the emergency room. <\/p>\n

Family members told investigators that Pablo had been out of sight for no more than 10 minutes. <\/p>\n

Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office criminal investigators interviewed everyone at the scene and are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toddler drowns in pond on family property in Martin County MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Martin County Sheriff’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2443,5829,2805,1089,164373,6431,28,7441,164372,40732,3470,49159,171,173,172,723,504,132462,22738,164374,164375,22710,100631,4103,221,189],"class_list":["post-414923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-angela-rozier","tag-cleveland","tag-drowning","tag-family","tag-family-property","tag-first-responder","tag-florida","tag-investigator","tag-martin-county-toddler","tag-pablo","tag-pond","tag-port-salerno","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-rescue","tag-safety","tag-short-time","tag-sight","tag-southeast-darling-street","tag-southeast-taylor-drive","tag-toddler","tag-toddler-death","tag-water","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414923","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=414923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}