{"id":44092,"date":"2019-08-03T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44092"},"modified":"2019-08-03T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T17:51:44","slug":"arrests-made-after-five-people-were-illegally-gathering-saw-palmetto-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/08\/arrests-made-after-five-people-were-illegally-gathering-saw-palmetto-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made after five people were illegally gathering Saw Palmetto Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SawPalmetto.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44093\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five people are arrested after illegally harvesting Saw\nPalmetto Berries in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LCSO Deputies say the five were seen picking berries near\n21st SW and Ruth Avenue and 72nd Street West and Flora Avenue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saw Palmetto Berries are used in some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennherb.com\/saw-palmetto?gclid=CjwKCAjw4ZTqBRBZEiwAHHxpfhZihZtKRVddsA1-DZZBDzDTDbMKSfrktl3fpf2DProVP00C2U4nlBoC7rkQAvD_BwE\">medicines<\/a>\nand can be sold for about $1.35 per pound according to a recent price in Immokalee.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, last year the State of Florida but the Saw Palmetto\nBerries on the list of commercially exploited plants in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now people need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshfromflorida.com\/es\/content\/download\/81528\/2381390\/08051_Native_Flora_Application.pdf\">special\npermit<\/a> in order to harvest the berries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people are arrested after illegally harvesting Saw Palmetto Berries in Lehigh Acres. LCSO Deputies say the five were seen picking berries near 21st SW and Ruth Avenue and 72nd&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44092"}],"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=44092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}