{"id":132061,"date":"2026-01-26T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:41:10","slug":"affidavit-man-charged-with-stalking-after-taking-bus-from-maine-to-florida-to-track-down-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132061\/","title":{"rendered":"Affidavit: Man charged with stalking after taking bus from Maine to Florida to track down woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest affidavit states the suspect traveled to Pinellas Park on a Greyhound bus to find the home of a woman he had not spoken to in about three months.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 A man was arrested for repeatedly harassing a woman after taking a bus from Maine to Florida in an attempt to locate her, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest affidavit states that 45-year-old Benjamin Beland traveled to Pinellas Park on a Greyhound bus to find the home of a woman he had not spoken to in about three months.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Beland tried to enter the home he believed the woman was staying in and walked into the backyard area. The agency said the home did not belong to her.<\/p>\n<p>Officials interviewed the woman who explained that she and her family left Maine due to previous domestic violence incidents with Beland back in 2021 and that she was worried he was going to kill her, the affidavit states.<\/p>\n<p>Beland reportedly told authorities he was looking to contact his son, whom he also had not spoken to in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Beland was charged with stalking, but was later released on bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest affidavit states the suspect traveled to Pinellas Park on a Greyhound bus to find the home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-132061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132061","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=132061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}