{"id":91085,"date":"2025-12-21T02:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:11:07","slug":"the-u-s-coast-guard-searching-for-two-missing-boaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91085\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard searching for Two missing boaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lee County, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The U.S. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg has issued a warning to be on the lookout for two missing boaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Coast Guard along with Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office is searching for the two men who went missing about 70 miles off the coast of Fort Myers.. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Uncoordinated crews operating in the search area can create unsafe conditions and hinder response efforts. Boaters should monitor Ch. 16 and report pertinent info to the U.S. Coast Guard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Search and Rescue operations are being conducted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier are the men missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Spivey is a white male, 6\u20191\u201d, 245lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing khaki pants and a dark in color shirt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Billmaier is a white male, 6\u20192\u201d, 250lbs, with strawberry hair and brown eyes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two left early Friday morning for a fishing trip on a 42FT Freeman boat from a residence on the 15000 block of Intracoastal Ct in Fort Myers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you know the whereabouts of Spivey and Billmaier, you\u2019re asked to call the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 239-477-1000, or 911 as applicable. You may also call SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee County, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The U.S. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg has issued a warning to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-91085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91085","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=91085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}