{"id":194359,"date":"2026-03-17T02:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194359\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:17:12","slug":"suspicious-package-reported-at-macdill-air-force-base-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194359\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious package reported at MacDill Air Force Base, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A suspicious package has been reported at the MacDill Air Force Base Visitors Center, the FBI is reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The package is near the Dale Mabry entrance gate. FBI special agent bomb technicians are on the scene along with Tampa Police, the FBI said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MacDill is home to U.S. Central Command, the headquarters in charge of U.S. military operations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Dale Mabry entrance gate is currently closed. Traffic to the base is being diverted to the Bayshore Gate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tampa Police have also shut down MacDill Avenue south of Interbay as a precaution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A suspicious package has been reported at the MacDill Air Force Base Visitors Center,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2362,89074,49665,202,204,203,199,201,200,90363],"class_list":["post-194359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fbi","tag-macdill","tag-package","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-suspicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194359","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=194359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}