{"id":58453,"date":"2023-07-28T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58453"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:21:12","slug":"lcso-investigating-voicemail-threatening-state-representative-spencer-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/07\/lcso-investigating-voicemail-threatening-state-representative-spencer-roach\/","title":{"rendered":"LCSO investigating voicemail threatening State Representative Spencer Roach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Spencer_Roach.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53375\" width=\"233\" height=\"310\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Just one day after someone fired a bullet into the home of North Fort Myers Republican State Representative Spencer Roach, his office staff discovered an unnerving phone recording left at his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The male caller, using a slow and steady voice, calmly begins the conversation by telling Roach he is giggling and unconcerned about a bullet fired into his home just a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/voicemail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58454\" width=\"151\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/voicemail.jpg 350w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/voicemail-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cHey, Spencer, I\u2019m giggling and unconcerned about any weapons being used at your residence. This is the hate that mother f****** like you started\u2026if it envelopes and destroys you, we\u2019re happy. Praying your demise is slow, painful, lonely, impoverishing, and even more fattening. I would rather see you die of type 2 diabetes,\u201d the message eerily ends with the man giggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer Roach said his first reaction to hearing the message was that it may be connected with the shot fired into his home a day earlier. He quickly turned it over to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office (LCSO) for investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LCSO confirmed that they have a person of interest in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the recording device picked up the 575 area code number in which the call was placed seemingly from New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after someone fired a bullet into the home of North Fort Myers Republican State Representative Spencer Roach, his office staff discovered an unnerving phone recording left at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453"}],"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=58453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58455,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58453\/revisions\/58455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}