{"id":155836,"date":"2026-02-14T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:11:15","slug":"tampa-man-charged-after-alleged-street-takeover-pedestrian-hit-and-run-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155836\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man charged after alleged street takeover pedestrian hit-and-run: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa man was charged with highway racing and leaving the scene of a crash after an alleged hit-and-run during a street takeover on Saturday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the FHP aviation unit observed vehicles blocking the intersection of Air Cargo Boulevard and West Ohio Avenue shortly after midnight. The unit observed 21-year-old Nicholas Johnson doing doughnuts and drifting in the intersection as part of a coordinated street takeover, per FHP.<\/p>\n<p>Police then saw Johnson hit a pedestrian with his vehicle and flee the intersection, capturing the incident on camera, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>Police later stopped Johnson and charged him with both felonies, as well as misdemeanor reckless driving, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol said Johnson admitted to hitting the pedestrian, but no victim was located or came forward after the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MARY.OCONNELL.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID&#8217;d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide<\/p>\n<p>The Sarasota County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said five people are dead after a shooting in a Sarasota neighborhood, including a suspect authorities say may be connected to a double homicide in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID&#8217;d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide: SCSO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa man was charged with highway racing and leaving the scene of a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,1056,276,5154,74891,36454,8327,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-155836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-fhp","10":"tag-hillsborough-county","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-nicholas-johnson","13":"tag-street-racing","14":"tag-street-takeover","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155836","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=155836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}