{"id":90479,"date":"2025-12-20T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/90479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:30:07","slug":"authorities-search-for-2-missing-boaters-off-southwest-florida-coast-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/90479\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities search for 2 missing boaters off Southwest Florida coast | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"168\">Authorities are searching for two men who went missing after leaving on a fishing trip from Fort Myers, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"412\">The missing men were identified as 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier. The two left early Friday morning on a 42-foot Freeman boat from a residence in the 15000 block of Intracoastal Court, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"579\">The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed it is working on the case and gathering additional details. Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"1028\">Spivey is described as white, standing 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 245 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing khaki pants and a dark-colored shirt. He\u00a0is the President of Spivey Law Firm.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"1028\">Billmaier is described as white, 6 feet 2 inches tall and about 250 pounds, with strawberry-colored hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1030\" data-end=\"1265\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Spivey or Billmaier is asked to contact the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 239-477-1000 or call 911. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are searching for two men who went missing after leaving on a fishing trip from Fort Myers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7692],"class_list":{"0":"post-90479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee-county-sheriff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90479","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=90479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}