TPD says neither the officer nor the suspect was injured in this incident.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa police officer is on paid leave after he used his weapon on a suspect in a narcotics case during a foot chase, the department announced.<\/p>\n
TPD says the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when the officer responded to the area of South Howard Avenue, where two suspects were involved in “narcotic-related activities” in a nearby alleyway.<\/p>\n
Officials said one suspect, 24-year-old Marco Fragoso, left the scene on foot and dropped a small bag of narcotics as the officer began chasing him.<\/p>\n
After eventually losing sight of Fragoso, the officer reportedly found him hiding next to a vehicle in a driveway on South Albany Avenue.<\/p>\n
Tampa police say Fragoso motioned toward his waistband, leading the officer to fire one round towards him.<\/p>\n
Fragoso was not hit by gunfire, was not injured and was taken into custody. The officer was also not injured.<\/p>\n
Fragoso was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, tampering with physical evidence and resisting arrest without violence.<\/p>\n
The officer has been placed on administrative leave, per Tampa Police Department protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TPD says neither the officer nor the suspect was injured in this incident. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-192479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192479","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=192479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}