{"id":354521,"date":"2026-09-23T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354521\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:18:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-police-identify-woman-found-dead-inside-garbage-can-in-parking-lot-at-plumb-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Police Identify Woman Found Dead Inside Garbage Can In Parking Lot At Plumb Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have identified the body of a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/09\/18\/body-found-inside-trash-can-in-plumb-beach-parking-lot\/6eoojXxNUCij6XzFkFB18m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">woman found<\/a> inside a trash can in Sheepshead Bay almost a week after she was discovered. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers responded to a call near the Belt Parkway and Knapp Street on Sep. 16 just after 3 p.m. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When they arrived, they found an\u00a0unconscious\u00a0and unresponsive woman inside a trashcan. She was pronounced deceased by EMS at the scene. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_2026-09-23_063603.png\"   alt=\"Screenshot 2026-09-23 063603.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have now identified her as 38-year-old Tanaya Cambell Ortiz, from Queens. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not determined her\u00a0cause death at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have identified the body of a woman found inside a trash can in Sheepshead Bay almost a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-354521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}