{"id":213394,"date":"2026-03-31T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:52:17","slug":"armed-person-prompts-swat-activation-in-pinellas-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213394\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed person prompts SWAT activation in Pinellas Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas Park<\/a> Police Department says it is at the scene of an armed person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The armed subject is near Briar Ridge Rd and Cedar Brook Drive S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police said the situation started shortly after 11:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The SWAT team has been activated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It is unknown why there is an armed person near Briar Ridge Rd and Cedar Brook Drive S.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information in a Pinellas Park Police Department press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; The Pinellas Park Police Department says it is at the scene of an armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,4226,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-213394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","12":"tag-pinellas-park","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213394","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=213394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}