{"id":5888,"date":"2020-01-20T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2020-01-20T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:44:25","slug":"fallen-lakeland-police-officers-memorial-at-police-station-and-at-lake-miriam-dr-vandalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/01\/20\/fallen-lakeland-police-officers-memorial-at-police-station-and-at-lake-miriam-dr-vandalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Lakeland police officer\u2019s memorial at Police Station and at Lake Miriam Dr vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was just over a week ago when the community lost a Lakeland police officer who died in a crash. But now, Polk County deputies are facing another issue surrounding the officer\u2019s death\u2026 someone vandalized his memorial sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1-1.png 451w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-1-1-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early Sunday morning the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office received calls about vandals making a mess of the memorial for Officer Paul Dunn. Just after 3:45 a.m., deputies showed up to take pictures of the memorial located at Lake Miriam Drive and Lakeland Highland Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies are labeling Lakeland police as the victims and if the vandals are caught, they will face charges of criminal mischief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Gazette is working to find out how bad the memorials was left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officer Dunn was on his way to work when for unknown reasons he hit a concrete median on Jan. 9 and crashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dunn had been with the Lakeland Police Department for five years, 12 years with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office and before that, he was a US Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was laid to rest on Jan. 16. He was 50 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just over a week ago when the community lost a Lakeland police officer who died in a crash. But now, Polk County deputies are facing another issue surrounding&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}