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TAMPA, Fla. – A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery and kidnapping in Tampa <\/a>that detectives say is linked to a rental home used by Terrion Arnold, a cornerback for the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n According to the Tampa Police Department, Boakai Hilton, 23, was arrested in Hernando County<\/a> and will be extradited to Hillsborough County<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n During a pretrial detention hearing Tuesday, TPD discussed the allegations against Hilton, who was an accomplice of Christion Williams, 24, and Lyndell Hudson II, 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ MORE: Detroit Lions player linked to two suspects arrested in Tampa armed robbery, kidnapping: Detectives<\/a><\/p>\n Detectives said the three men were armed and held victims against their will inside an apartment at the Eagles Point at Tampa Palms complex on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Tampa Police Department <\/p>\n Investigators say the victims were lured to the apartment by Jasmine Randazzo, 19, and Ariana Del Valle, 18. According to court documents, when one of the men opened a bedroom closet door, he was confronted by two armed suspects who are accused of pistol-whipping and threatening the victims.<\/p>\n Detectives said those two suspects are believed to be Williams and Hudson.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Tampa Police Department <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Detectives believe the armed robbery is connected to reported thefts at a Largo home that was being rented by Arnold. Detectives said high-end bags, guns, a cellphone and $100,000 in cash were reported stolen from the property in two separate incidents prior to the alleged kidnapping and robbery.<\/p>\n Hilton faces three counts of kidnapping with intent to inflict bodily harm or terrorize and three counts of robbery with a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators say additional suspects may be involved.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n It remains unclear whether any arrests have been made in connection with the Largo thefts.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story came from the Tampa Police Department, court records, testimony from detectives and information from investigators in court.<\/p>\n Tampa<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Tampa Police Department TAMPA, Fla. – A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-163188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163188","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=163188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tri-suspects-2.20.jpg\")
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