{"id":48829,"date":"2021-05-19T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48829"},"modified":"2021-05-19T12:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:28:01","slug":"9500-reward-for-information-on-the-murder-of-lehigh-acres-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/9500-reward-for-information-on-the-murder-of-lehigh-acres-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"$9,500 reward for information on the murder of Lehigh Acres grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers has raised the reward for information leading to an arrest in the 2015 brutal murder of a Lehigh Acres grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have upped the original reward of $3,000 to $9,500 just over six years since the man was killed in his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Grandfather-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Grandfather-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Grandfather-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Grandfather-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hemchand Bhagwandin was 68-years-old when he was murdered while babysitting his 4-month-old granddaughter on March 15, 2015, according to SWFL Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wo masked men broke into Bhagwandin\u2019s home along 20th Street SW in Lehigh Acres, killed the 68-year-old and attacked his wife during the home invasion, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. Callers will remain anonymous and be eligible for the reward money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers has raised the reward for information leading to an arrest in the 2015 brutal murder of a Lehigh Acres grandfather. Authorities have upped the original reward&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829"}],"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=48829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48831,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829\/revisions\/48831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}