{"id":142507,"date":"2026-02-03T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142507\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:10:07","slug":"3-arrested-in-separate-super-speeder-cases-over-the-weekend-in-pinellas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142507\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested in separate &#8216;super speeder&#8217; cases over the weekend in Pinellas County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incidents occurred on US-19, Howard Frankland Bridge, and I-275.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/crime\/super-speeder-howard-frankland-bridge-arrested\/67-ecb83f78-1d06-4904-92e8-a6d0051a5c0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> and the Pinellas Park Police arrested three individuals in three different incidents on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first incident occurred right after midnight when the FHP spotted a Ford Edge going 114 miles per hour near Mile Marker 33 on I-275. After initiating a traffic stop, troopers say they arrested Jaxon Richards, 20, for dangerous excessive speeding. Richards was released later that day on bond.<\/p>\n<p>The second incident, officers said, occurred on US-19 around 3 a.m. A Pinellas Park officer saw a car being driven by Meadow Smith going 111 mph in the posted 50 mph zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meadow, 18, was arrested for dangerous excessive speeding and driving under the influence after showing signs of impairment during field sobriety tests, according to officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third incident occurred around noon when an FHP Trooper was conducting radar on the Howard Frankland Bridge, where he encountered Tan Nguyen, 34, going 123 mph in the posted 55 mph zone, the FHP said. He was arrested for dangerous, excessive speeding and released on bond later that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/100-mph-florida-new-law-super-speeder\/67-63cb0e80-4252-48b1-89f0-99fd4cd10c6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a &#8220;Super Speeder&#8221; law<\/a> went into effect, targeting drivers going 50 mph or more over the posted speed limit, or who travel at 100 mph or higher, regardless of the speed limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, those violations are no longer infractions \u2014 they are now criminal offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The first offense can carry up to 30 days in jail, a $500 fine and a mandatory court appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A second offense within five years could mean up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, along with a license revocation of up to one year.<\/p>\n<p>Previous 10 Tampa Bay News information contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incidents occurred on US-19, Howard Frankland Bridge, and I-275. PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-142507","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\/142507","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=142507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}