{"id":14185,"date":"2025-10-21T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:52:09","slug":"florida-man-stole-fire-engine-crashed-into-vehicle-after-joyride-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14185\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man stole fire engine, crashed into vehicle after joyride in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday after stealing a fire engine and taking it for a joyride in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>TPD said Warren Scudder, 59, allegedly stole the fire engine around 9:25 a.m. while firefighters were inside St. Joseph&#8217;s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Scudder drove off and crashed into a Lexus SUV near Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard and MacDill Avenue. He continued driving in the fire engine for about a mile and a half down MLK before he was surrounded by officers at the 4100 block of Poplar Avenue, TPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Scudder was arrested and charged with grand theft auto and hit &amp; run, TPD said.  Schudder has a criminal history, including a false report of a bomb in 2020 in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Lexus SUV was evaluated by hospital staff for hip pain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Concrete company responds after multiple drivers say repaving project damaged their cars<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after drivers started reaching out to Tampa Bay 28 about damage to their vehicles, we\u2019re finally hearing from the contractor behind the Tyrone Boulevard repaving project.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete company responds after multiple drivers say repaving project damaged their cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday after stealing a fire engine and taking it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[205,12410,12411,28,30,29,276,12412,5910,3670,732,208],"class_list":["post-14185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-abc-action-news","tag-crashed","tag-fire-engine","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-joyride","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-vehicle","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185","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=14185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}