TAMPA, FL \u2014 Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal stabbing in downtown Tampa.<\/p>\n
Diego Ponce-Molina was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder with a weapon following the Friday incident, Tampa police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
According to police, officers were called after a man’s body was found in the 800 block of East Zack Street around 4 p.m. When police arrived, they found apparent stab wounds on the man’s body. <\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said Ponce-Molina was still at the scene when officers arrived. According to police, he was taken into custody after detectives determined Ponce-Molina approached and assaulted the victim without any apparent interaction or confrontation.<\/p>\n
The victim has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal stabbing in downtown Tampa. Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-227799","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\/227799","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=227799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}