{"id":77098,"date":"2025-12-09T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77098\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:47:06","slug":"knife-wielding-man-arrested-for-assault-found-hiding-in-closet-by-deputies-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77098\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding man arrested for assault; found hiding in closet by deputies | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a man accused of aggravated assault after camera footage showed him chasing a woman with a knife.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deputies arrested Schmidley Saint Ville on Monday after the victim reported to deputies that he had confronted her regarding prior domestic issues on 20th Street SW in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The surveillance footage recorded Ville grabbing the knife from the kitchen before running out the front door and chasing the woman down the street.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When the victim reported the incident, deputies arrived on the scene, where they found Ville hiding in the closet and refusing to leave the home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was removed by deputies and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office shared the surveillance and body camera footage on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1367029454346415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a man accused of aggravated assault after camera footage showed him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-77098","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098","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=77098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}