{"id":31089,"date":"2014-05-30T23:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31089"},"modified":"2014-05-30T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T03:50:29","slug":"is-there-a-raging-war-between-gangs-in-the-city-of-fort-myers-and-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/05\/is-there-a-raging-war-between-gangs-in-the-city-of-fort-myers-and-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Raging War Between Gangs In The City Of Fort Myers And Lehigh Acres?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31090\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31090 \" title=\"Fort Myers Councilman Tom Leonardo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fort-Myers-Councilman-Tom-Leonardo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fort-Myers-Councilman-Tom-Leonardo.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fort-Myers-Councilman-Tom-Leonardo-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fort Myers Councilman Tom Leonardo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One Fort Myers city councilman says &#8220;YES&#8221; and he plans to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers Councilman Tom Leonardo is fed up with the recent so-called gang related violence in Fort Myers and Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is there are gang rivalries over drug turf between people, our minority communities in Fort Myers and in Lehigh Acres, said Leonardo.<\/p>\n<p>We need to have a task force within a task force; small, well-focused, specifically on that one problem of the gang and violence connection between Fort Myers and Lehigh Acres, says Leonardo.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wouldn&#8217;t comment on gang related activity.<\/p>\n<p>However the Fort Myer Police Dept did say through their PIO: &#8220;The definition of a gang is an organized group of criminals involved in an illegal activity to turn a profit. \u00a0FMPD does not see a growing trend in gang activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Fort Myers city councilman says &#8220;YES&#8221; and he plans to address the issue. Fort Myers Councilman Tom Leonardo is fed up with the recent so-called gang related violence in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}