{"id":180731,"date":"2026-03-06T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:19:08","slug":"st-pete-man-shone-laser-at-sheriffs-office-helicopter-pcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180731\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Man Shone Laser At Sheriff&#8217;s Office Helicopter: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested after shining a laser at a Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office helicopter on Tuesday night, the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>James Mock, 71, was charged with felony misuse of a laser lighting device. <\/p>\n<p>When the helicopter was airborne in the area of 38th Avenue North just before 9 p.m., the flight deputies were struck by a green laser light in their cockpit, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Flight deputies were able to locate the suspect at a 29th Avenue North home, giving patrol deputies the address. <\/p>\n<p>The patrol deputies went to his home and arrested him. He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested after shining a laser at a Pinellas County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-180731","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\/180731","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=180731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}