{"id":156474,"date":"2026-02-15T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156474\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:14:07","slug":"fhp-4-suspects-in-tampa-street-takeover-arrested-after-driver-goes-over-100-mph-during-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156474\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: 4 suspects in Tampa street takeover arrested after driver goes over 100 mph during pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said a trooper conducted a vehicle pursuit just after midnight Saturday after a vehicle was clocked going 100 mph in 45 mph zones.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Four St. Pete residents are facing charges after being caught partaking in a street takeover in Tampa while going over 100 mph, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol said a trooper conducted a vehicle pursuit just after midnight Saturday after a vehicle was clocked going 100 mph in 45 mph zones in the area of State Road 580 and Lois Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as 21-year-old Nathan Welch, was taking &#8220;evasive actions&#8221; by driving at a high rate of speed and running multiple red lights, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said Welch and his three passengers inside the vehicle were part of a street takeover. They were identified as 18-year-old Madison Nicholson, 18-year-old Summer Simpson and 19-year-old Quamari Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>During the pursuit, Welch reportedly refused to let one of the passengers leave his vehicle after asking multiple times to let them out.<\/p>\n<p>All four suspects were charged with unlawful racing on a highway. Welch was also charged with possession of cannabis sativa resin, false imprisonment and felony fleeing to elude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol said a trooper conducted a vehicle pursuit just after midnight Saturday after a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-156474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156474","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=156474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}