{"id":443564,"date":"2026-10-31T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443564\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:40:18","slug":"venice-man-arrested-in-punta-gorda-accused-of-sexual-activity-with-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443564\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice man arrested in Punta Gorda, accused of sexual activity with minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793454018_654_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>VENICE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Venice man accused of unlawful sexual activity with a minor was arrested in Punta Gorda on Thursday, according to the Venice Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Venice police say that, Kevin Johns, 67, was arrested with assistance from the Punta Gorda Police Department and Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Johns faces the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>Two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor aged 16 or 17 by a person aged 24 or olderOne count of indecent, lewd, or lascivious contact with a minor age 16 or 17 by a person age 24 or olderOne count of unlawful use of a two-way communications device.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Johns was booked into the Charlotte County Jail awaiting extradition to Sarasota.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENICE, Fla. \u2014 A Venice man accused of unlawful sexual activity with a minor was arrested in Punta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7215,7740,2344,104,9554,172893,213,19243,666,14484,413,4862,172894,141532,221],"class_list":["post-443564","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-county-sheriff","tag-count","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-extradition","tag-kevin-johns","tag-late-news","tag-minor","tag-person","tag-punta-gorda","tag-sarasota","tag-sexual-activity","tag-venice-man","tag-venice-police-department","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443564","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=443564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}