{"id":238811,"date":"2026-04-20T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:03:09","slug":"deputies-charge-tampa-elementary-school-teacher-with-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238811\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies charge Tampa elementary school teacher with DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa elementary school teacher is facing DUI charges, authorities announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office conducted a traffic stop at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, when they say 35-year-old Jacob Cohen, a teacher at Davis Elementary School, showed signs of impairment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies say Cohen agreed to field sobriety exercises, but refused to give a breath sample.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cohen reportedly continued showing signs of impairment throughout the stop.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cohen was arrested and charged with refusal to submit to testing and DUI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Driving under the influence is a dangerous and reckless decision that puts lives at risk,&#8221; Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. &#8220;As someone entrusted with shaping young minds in our community, this behavior is especially concerning. We will continue to hold individuals accountable and remain committed to keeping our roads safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation into this incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tampa elementary school teacher is facing DUI charges, authorities announced. The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office conducted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71204,105879,105880,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-238811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-jacob-cohen","tag-school-teacher","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238811","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=238811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}