Troopers said aerial footage captured the moment a black Ford Mustang hit a pedestrian before speeding away.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol troopers shut down a coordinated street takeover in Tampa after they said a driver performing stunts in a crowded intersection struck a pedestrian and fled.<\/p>\n
FHP said this happened just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Air Cargo Boulevard and West Ohio Avenue, where a large group of vehicles had gathered that were blocking traffic.<\/p>\n
An aviation unit monitoring the scene reported that drivers were engaging in dangerous maneuvers, including drifting and performing doughnuts in the roadway.<\/p>\n
Troopers said aerial footage captured the moment a black Ford Mustang hit a pedestrian before speeding away. The aviation team alerted ground units and tracked the vehicle as it left the area.<\/p>\n
Patrol units later intercepted the Mustang on West Woodlawn Avenue and conducted a traffic stop. The driver, 21-year-old Nicholas Johnson, and his passenger, 19-year-old Brianna Vergara, were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
During questioning, Johnson reportedly admitted to participating in the takeover and hitting a man with his vehicle.<\/p>\n
Officials said they could not locate the man who was hit, believing that he may have left the area due to possibly being involved in illegal activity.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was photographed as evidence, and both Johnson and Vergara were transported to the Hillsborough County Jail without further incident. They were bonded out later that day.<\/p>\n
Johnson was charged with unlawful racing on the highway while engaged in coordinated street takeover, leaving the scene of a crash with injury and reckless driving.<\/p>\n
Vergara was charged with unlawful racing on a highway as a passenger in a street takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said aerial footage captured the moment a black Ford Mustang hit a pedestrian before speeding away. TAMPA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-157280","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\/157280","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=157280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}