{"id":225738,"date":"2026-04-10T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:24:06","slug":"macdill-inn-evacuated-after-threat-reported-against-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225738\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDill Inn evacuated after threat reported against base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 MacDill Air Force Base is reporting a threat made against the base, and has evacuated the MacDill Inn because of it.<\/p>\n<p>The inn is temporary lodging for military personnel and other authorized visitors.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were immediately made available about the threat.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the base stated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take all threats seriously and are taking appropriate measures to prioritize the safety and security of our installation. As a matter of policy, we will not release specifics on what security measures have been implemented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>This comes after multiple threats put MacDill Air Force Base on alert last month.<\/p>\n<p>Security found an explosive device on March 16 outside the visitor center.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/2-indicted-after-exposive-found-at-macdill-air-force-base\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indicted two people in that case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/03\/25\/palm-harbor-man-accused-of-making-threats-against-macdill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Harbor man was also charged<\/a> in\u00a0connection with an incident that caused a\u00a0&#8220;shelter in place&#8221; order\u00a0on March 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 MacDill Air Force Base is reporting a threat made against the base, and has evacuated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2967,4995,276,115,277,275,135,137,136,6390,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-225738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-crime-safety","10":"tag-hillsborough-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-public-safety","13":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-topic-latest-public-safety-crime-stories","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225738","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=225738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}