{"id":141474,"date":"2026-02-03T02:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/141474\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:04:15","slug":"accused-rapist-who-met-woman-on-dating-app-arrested-in-il-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/141474\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused Rapist Who Met Woman On Dating App Arrested In IL: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A suspected rapist who met his victim on a dating app was arrested Thursday in Illinois, the St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Joshua Abercrombie, 21, was charged with sexual battery.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe there may be more victims in the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Abercrombie met his victim, \u201ca young woman,\u201d through a social media app, police said.<\/p>\n<p>They met up in late November and during their date, \u201che became aggressive and sexually assaulted and choked her repeatedly,\u201d investigators said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"24559556-1770066233\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/St. Pete Rape Suspect.jpg\" data- \/>Joshua Abercrombie (St. Pete Police)<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody in Will County, Illinois, on an arrest warrant for the charges in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this case or who might have been victims of Abercrombie are asked to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD and the tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A suspected rapist who met his victim on a dating app was arrested Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-141474","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\/141474","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=141474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}