{"id":103435,"date":"2026-01-02T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103435\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:24:06","slug":"tampa-man-charged-in-u-s-92-hit-and-run-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103435\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man charged in U.S. 92 hit-and-run | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Tampa man Dec. 29 in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist on U.S. 92 in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p>Lijah Ibin Muhammad-Roomes, 34, will face charges of leaving the scene of a fatal crash, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said Muhammad-Roomes was driving a 2001 Honda Passport west on U.S. 92 around 10:37 p.m. Dec. 20 when he veered onto the shoulder east of Mobile Villa Drive and struck a 38-year-old Nicaragua man riding a bicycle. The cyclist died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad-Roomes fled after the crash, troopers said. Investigators recovered the SUV and arrested him at his home on West Ohio Avenue in Tampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Tampa man Dec. 29 in connection with a hit-and-run crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36527,53799,38060,53800,618,276,53801,9198,13541,9201,135,137,136,8848],"class_list":{"0":"post-103435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-adventure-travel","9":"tag-aerobic-exercise","10":"tag-bicyclist","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","13":"tag-hillsborough-county","14":"tag-human-powered-transport","15":"tag-land-transport","16":"tag-micromobility","17":"tag-road-transport","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-tampa-headlines","20":"tag-tampa-news","21":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}