{"id":429621,"date":"2026-10-16T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429621\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:34:32","slug":"fort-myers-man-facing-felony-charges-after-cape-coral-drug-sting-operation-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429621\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers man facing felony charges after Cape Coral drug sting operation | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A Fort Myers man is behind bars after an undercover drug operation caught him selling dangerous substances on Cape Coral streets.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Cape Coral Police Department Narcotics Unit arrested 20-year-old Blake Alexander Riollano of Fort Myers following an extensive investigation into street-level drug distribution in Cape Coral.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation kicked off after detectives got a tip about suspected drug dealing happening across the city and began running undercover operations to gather evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Things came to a head when Cape Coral Police Department detectives and SWAT officers moved in and arrested Riollano after he sold trafficking amounts of fentanyl to undercover detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Riollano now faces four felony charges, including trafficking in methamphetamine, trafficking in fentanyl and two counts of possession with intent to sell.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Lee County Jail following his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A Fort Myers man is behind bars after an undercover drug operation caught him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4469,28,897,356,3509],"class_list":["post-429621","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-cape-coral-police-department","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429621","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=429621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}