{"id":203452,"date":"2026-03-24T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:11:08","slug":"florida-troopers-pull-over-truck-with-missiles-in-plant-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203452\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida troopers pull over truck with &#8216;missiles&#8217; in Plant City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers said &#8220;#RocketMan&#8221; was pulled over in Plant City after multiple concerned drivers called 911.<\/p>\n<p>PLANT CITY, Fla \u2014 Multiple 911 calls about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/video\/news\/the-florida-highway-patrol-pulls-over-a-truck-with-missiles\/67-3d3f183a-6240-46c7-b530-8786cde0be8b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">missiles in the back of a truck<\/a> on Interstate 4 turned out to be a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol responded to State Road 39 in Plant City following calls from concerned drivers Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said they pulled over &#8220;#RocketMan&#8221; after spotting two large missile-like structures mounted in the back of his Ford pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>They quickly determined that the projectiles were just<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWMn0asDwDD\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0plastic devices used for shows and events<\/a> \u2014 and even snapped a quick selfie with the props.<\/p>\n<p>The man isn&#8217;t facing any charges, just a &#8220;strong suggestion&#8221; on how to better transport the devices.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b04033ef-460b-4c2a-8f04-9e3346022e3f_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b04033ef-460b-4c2a-8f04-9e3346022e3f_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers said &#8220;#RocketMan&#8221; was pulled over in Plant City after multiple concerned drivers called 911. PLANT CITY, Fla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-203452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203452","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=203452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}