{"id":212433,"date":"2026-03-31T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:13:07","slug":"usf-student-allegedly-held-at-knife-point-by-florida-man-in-multi-day-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212433\/","title":{"rendered":"USF student allegedly held at knife point by Florida man in multi-day assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Florida man allegedly strangled, battered, and threatened a college student off-campus for several days near the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says on Thursday, March 26, deputies responded to the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida after a student had reported that they were battered, strangled and threatened with a knife at an off-campus location. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/tiger-woods-refused-a-dui-urine-test-why-that-decision-could-now-mean-jail-time-march-30-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tiger Woods refused a DUI urine test, why that decision could now mean jail time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While on the scene, detectives learned the suspect, Ashtin Andreasen, had an active warrant issued by USF police for strangulation and false imprisonment involving the same victim, the sheriff&#8217;s office says. <\/p>\n<p>The following day, Andreasen was taken into custody. He now faces multiple felony charges, which include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery by strangulation, battery, false imprisonment and tampering with a witness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida man allegedly strangled, battered, and threatened a college student off-campus for several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-212433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212433","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=212433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}