{"id":217680,"date":"2026-04-03T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217680\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:54:07","slug":"suspicious-package-found-at-usf-police-investigating-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217680\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious package found at USF; police investigating threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No evacuations have been ordered as police remain at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Police are investigating a suspicious package found at the University of South Florida on Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The package was discovered shortly after 11 a.m. on Fowler Field at USF Bill Run on the Tampa campus. No scheduled activities or events were taking place on the field at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The discovery prompted a &#8220;reported bomb threat&#8221; to be issued through <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.usf.edu\/alertusf\/View?campus=Tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AlertUSF<\/a> at 11:19 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Police Department Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit responded to inspect the package &#8220;out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; USF police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>USF Bull Run is closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic as officers remain at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No evacuation orders are in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good Friday is not listed as a paid holiday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/hr\/benefits\/attendance-leave\/holiday-schedule.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">school&#8217;s website<\/a>. Classes and campus operations are scheduled as normal today.<\/p>\n<p>10 Tampa Bay News has a crew heading to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No evacuations have been ordered as police remain at the scene. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Police are investigating a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-217680","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\/217680","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=217680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}