{"id":171765,"date":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","slug":"affidavit-st-petersburg-man-arrested-for-driving-120mph-on-us-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171765\/","title":{"rendered":"Affidavit: St. Petersburg man arrested for driving 120mph on US-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinellas Park police said they had to drive 140 mph to catch up with Andres Baron, who was driving 120mph.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 The Pinellas Park Police Department arrested a man on &#8220;Super Speeder&#8221; charges after spotting him driving 120 mph on U.S. 19, according to an arrest affidavit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andres Baron, 41, was traveling northbound on US-19 in Pinellas Park just after 1:30 a.m. \u00a0Thursday, when police said they spotted him speeding excessively. Baron moved over, looking like he was going to pull over, but accelerated and took off from the authorities, the affidavit says.<\/p>\n<p>Per the affidavit, the officer had to travel nearly 140 mph to catch up with Baron, who was arrested and charged with dangerous excessive speeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park police said they had to drive 140 mph to catch up with Andres Baron, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-171765","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\/171765","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=171765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}