{"id":425089,"date":"2026-10-11T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:08:09","slug":"death-investigated-at-charlotte-county-pool-port-charlotte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425089\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigated at Charlotte County pool | Port Charlotte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives are investigating a death at a county pool.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS units were sent to the Centennial Park Pool in Port Charlotte at 12:37 p.m., Friday. The call was dispatched as a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Fire &amp; EMS crews arrived on scene and provided emergency medical care, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies also arrived, and the Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s Major Crimes Unit took over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The CCSO did not release any information over the weekend about the siutation, except to confirm the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CCSO Sgt. Richard Kaufman Jr. said there is no danger to anyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte County officials announced Friday that the pool, at 1120 Centennial Blvd., Port Charlotte, was closed, then updated the announcement to say the pool would remain closed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The pool was reopened Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled to be closed Monday morning, Oct. 12, for a swim meet, then will reopen to the public at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives are investigating a death at a county pool. Charlotte County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,115],"class_list":["post-425089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425089","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=425089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}