{"id":171704,"date":"2026-02-27T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:19:06","slug":"police-man-tracks-person-with-samsung-gps-tag-to-topgolf-slashes-their-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171704\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man tracks person with Samsung GPS Tag to Topgolf, slashes their tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hoopes went to the parking garage near Topgolf where he waited for the victim go inside before damaging the tires.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A Brooksville faces a criminal mischief charge after using a GPS Tag to track a victim and puncture their car tires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hoopes was arrested after he tracked the victim to Topgolf at Carillon Parkway in St. Petersburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Police say Hoopes, 33, waited in the parking garage for the victim to go inside, then stabbed the tires of their truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crime was captured on CCTV footage. Police identified Hoopes by a distinct tattoo on his neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is not known what Hoopes&#8217; relationship to the victim is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was released on $500 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Hoopes went to the parking garage near Topgolf where he waited for the victim go inside before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-171704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171704","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=171704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}