{"id":166205,"date":"2026-02-23T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166205\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:31:35","slug":"woman-arrested-after-suspicious-package-found-at-st-pete-police-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166205\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after suspicious package found at St. Pete Police headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 St Petersburg Police (SPPD) said they arrested a woman who allegedly left a suspicious package at police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Police said an employee noticed a suspicious vehicle parked in the police department&#8217;s loading dock on 1st Avenue around 2:25 p.m. An officer searched the area and found a suspicious suitcase in the parking lot under a forensics unit van. <\/p>\n<p>The parking garage was blocked off and businesses in the area were evacuated. SPPD said they called Tampa&#8217;s Bomb Squad to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said security video showed a woman later identified as Rebekkah Westermeyer, 26, drive up in a vehicle and pull out a large suitcase.  The woman then allegedly walked around a wall, under a security barrier and into a restricted area with the suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>About thirty minutes later, SPPD said officers were called to 249 4th Avenue North for a person who was allegedly shot.  When officers arrived, they found a woman, matching Westermeyer&#8217;s description, barricaded inside the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the SWAT team was able to take Westermeyer into custody and charged her with Abuse of 911 and manufacture, possion or threaten use of a hoax weapon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ANNETTE.GUTIERREZ.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg rally marks 4 years since Russian attack on Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Former Citrus County Sheriff Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Dean Sr., who served the county for 16 years and later represented Florida in the Legislature, died on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg rally marks 4 years since Russian attack on Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 St Petersburg Police (SPPD) said they arrested a woman who allegedly left a suspicious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,79066,596,202,204,203,21530,199,201,200,39045,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-166205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-parking-lot-package","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-peterburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-suspicious-package","19":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","20":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166205","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=166205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}