{"id":83208,"date":"2026-10-04T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=83208"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:07:27","slug":"pt-11-this-cant-happen-in-fort-myers-two-more-men-come-forward-with-allegations-about-fort-myers-mayor-kevin-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/10\/04\/pt-11-this-cant-happen-in-fort-myers-two-more-men-come-forward-with-allegations-about-fort-myers-mayor-kevin-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pt 11: \u2018This can\u2019t happen in Fort Myers\u2019: Two more men come forward with allegations about Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Bob Norman<\/p>\n\n\n

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Two more men who worked at a popular downtown Fort Myers restaurant have now come forward with new accounts of inappropriate behavior by Mayor Kevin Anderson \u2014 including allegations of inappropriate sexual propositions and unwanted touching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their stories add to the accounts of Kagan Vann, 23, and Dominic Hendricks, 18, who both shared their stories<\/a> with the Lighthouse<\/a> and directly confronted the mayor at the Sept. 21 city council meeting with disturbing allegations of sexual misconduct by the mayor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former co-worker of Anderson\u2019s at Chico\u2019s FAS also came forward<\/a> to describe chronic unwanted attention from him at the office, and a bar staffer described<\/a> watching the mayor get ordered out of an unnamed downtown establishment after he allegedly offered a 23-year-old co-worker money for sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 68-year-old Anderson, a retired cop and longtime school resource officer, has denied the accounts of Vann and Hendricks, saying his \u201cexchanges\u201d with them were taken out of context and blaming it on misunderstandings regarding his \u201cwarped sense of humor.\u201d He has not responded to requests for comment regarding the additional four accounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following story of his latest accusers, exclusively for Lighthouse members, is filled with graphic language of unwanted sexual advances. It\u2019s included in its entirety due to the weight of the allegations and the involvement of such a central city leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it starts with Jameson and a Michelob. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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