{"id":155968,"date":"2026-02-15T00:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155968\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:25:34","slug":"four-charged-in-tampa-street-racing-incident-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155968\/","title":{"rendered":"Four charged in Tampa street racing incident: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Four people were charged with unlawful racing on a highway after a police pursuit in Tampa on Saturday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

The incident took place in the area of Hillsborough Avenue and Lois Avenue just after midnight, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n

Police said 21-year-old Nathan Welch was driving three other passengers when he failed to stop for a trooper activating his lights and sirens. The report said Welch reached speeds greater than 100 mph in a 45 mph zone, running multiple red lights while attempting to evade police.<\/p>\n

The arrest report alleged all four people in the vehicle were knowing participants of a street takeover.<\/p>\n

Police said Welch also refused to let one of the passengers exit the vehicle during the chase, despite being asked multiple times to let them out.<\/p>\n

Welch was charged with three felonies, including fleeing to elude, false imprisonment and possession of cannabis sativa resin, according to FHP.<\/p>\n

All four people in the vehicle, including 18-year-old Madison Nicholson, 18-year-old Summer Simpson and 19-year-old Quamari Thomas, were charged with unlawful racing on a highway, a misdemeanor, according to the arrest reports.<\/p>\n

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5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID’d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide<\/p>\n

The Sarasota County Sheriff’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

5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID’d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide: SCSO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Four people were charged with unlawful racing on a highway after a police pursuit in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,276,74956,36454,8327,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-155968","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-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-nathan-welch","11":"tag-street-racing","12":"tag-street-takeover","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155968","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=155968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155968\/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=155968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}