{"id":223864,"date":"2026-04-08T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:38:09","slug":"police-bomb-squad-id-suspicious-item-near-tpa-as-empty-pressure-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223864\/","title":{"rendered":"Police, bomb squad ID &#8216;suspicious&#8217; item near TPA as empty pressure cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police said the bomb squad unit were on the scene near the airport after a passerby called in seeing something suspicious that looked to be a pressure cooker on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on April 8 they were investigating the incident at the intersection of North O&#8217;Brien Street and West Spruce Street.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they found an empty pressure cooker in the area. And there is no threat to the community as of 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police activity had all lanes blocked in both directions at North O&#8217;Brien Street.<\/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\/01\/BLAKE.PHILLIPS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the partnership, Hard Rock displayed classic cars, including a replica of the Shelby from &#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221; and a replica Daytona from &#8220;Miami Vice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police said the bomb squad unit were on the scene near the airport after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,276,7829,135,3670,137,136,3211,75481,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-223864","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-road-closures","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-tpa","16":"tag-west-spruce-street","17":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864","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=223864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}