{"id":428765,"date":"2026-10-15T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428765\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:48:09","slug":"cape-coral-police-investigate-report-of-child-sexual-abuse-material-at-halfway-house-arrest-two-men-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428765\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral police investigate report of child sexual abuse material at halfway house, arrest two men | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Two men at a Cape Coral halfway house are facing charges after a roommate reported seeing one of them viewing child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/capecops.com\/2026\/10\/15\/two-men-arrested-following-investigation-into-alleged-child-sexual-abuse-material\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral Police Department&#8217;s Special Victims Unit<\/a> arrested William Plumley and Enrico Mendes Jr. following an investigation at a halfway house at 1700 NW 1st Ave in Cape Coral on Monday, Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p>A resident at the home reported seeing Plumley, a registered sex offender, viewing child sexual abuse material on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Victims Unit took over the investigation and executed a search warrant at the home, with the Florida Department of Corrections Probation and Parole assisting.<\/p>\n<p>Both Plumley and Mendes Jr. were arrested for violating their probation by having unauthorized phones capable of connecting to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, investigators found multiple electronic devices, including a smashed phone hidden in a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Residents told investigators that Plumley had gone into the bathroom to hide shortly before law enforcement arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing and additional charges could be coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Two men at a Cape Coral halfway house are facing charges after a roommate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-428765","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-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428765","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=428765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}