{"id":127947,"date":"2026-01-22T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:08:24","slug":"pit-bull-found-stranded-on-i-275-median-in-hillsborough-county-fl-highway-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127947\/","title":{"rendered":"Pit Bull Found Stranded On I-275 Median In Hillsborough County: FL Highway Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 A pit bull was found stranded Wednesday morning in the median of Interstate 275 near mile marker 56, Trooper Andrew Fuqua with the Florida Highway Patrol said in a report. <\/p>\n<p>After receiving a call from a passerby about the dog, Fuqua responded to that area of the highway, near the Hillsborough and Pasco county line, around 7:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived, he found the pit bull walking around, unrestrained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dog appeared to be agitated and showed its teeth when I approached it,\u201d Fuqua said. <br \/>Hillsborough County Animal Control later responded to the scene and took possession of the dog.<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 A pit bull was found stranded Wednesday morning in the median of Interstate 275 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-127947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127947","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=127947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}