{"id":218158,"date":"2026-04-04T00:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:52:27","slug":"tpd-conducts-investigation-into-suspicious-package-found-on-fowler-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218158\/","title":{"rendered":"TPD conducts investigation into suspicious package found on Fowler Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The University of South Florida Police Department (USFPD) said it was investigating a suspicious package found on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police said they investigated a package that was discovered shortly after 11 a.m. on Fowler Field at USF Bull Run. <\/p>\n<p>Police said there was a package found during a time when there were no scheduled activities or events taking place on the field. The package was determined to be a non-threat.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Police Department Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit is on the scene to inspect the suspicious package. <\/p>\n<p>As of 1:50 p.m. on April 3, the area around USF Bull Run has been cleared. No evacuations were ordered. <\/p>\n<p>USF police said officers were on the scene, as the area was &#8220;being monitored&#8221; amid the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s someone&#8217;s loved one&#8217;: Tampa approves land swap to preserve the stolen graves at Zion Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>The City of Tampa said council members approved a land swap agreement to transfer privately owned land believed to be Zion, Tampa&#8217;s first African American cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Zion Cemetery land swap approved by Tampa City Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The University of South Florida Police Department (USFPD) said it was investigating a suspicious package&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,276,39045,135,5910,3670,137,136,3650,99124,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-218158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-suspicious-package","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay-28","13":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news","16":"tag-university-of-south-florida","17":"tag-usf-police","18":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218158","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=218158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}