{"id":14084,"date":"2025-10-21T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:48:06","slug":"suspect-swipes-fire-engine-from-st-josephs-hospital-and-slams-into-suv-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14084\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect swipes fire engine from St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital and slams into SUV: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A man is accused of being involved in a hit-and-run crash with a fire truck he stole from St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the Tampa Police Department, Warren Scudder, 59, stole a fire engine while firefighters were inside the hospital shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police say Scudder drove off and crashed into a gray Lexus SUV near Dr. King Blvd and MacDill Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/woman-accused-severely-injuring-2-teens-hudson-hit-and-run-crash-bonds-out-jail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman accused of severely injuring 2 teens in Hudson hit-and-run crash bonds out of jail<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the Lexus, an adult male, reported hip pain after the crash and was medically evaluated by hospital staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police were immediately dispatched and found the stolen vehicle shortly before 9:40 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers blocked the engine\u2019s path in the 4100 block of Poplar Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Scudder was taken into custody and charged with grand theft auto and hit-and-run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Additional charges may be pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Tampa Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A man is accused of being involved in a hit-and-run crash with a fire truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-14084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","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=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}