{"id":244784,"date":"2026-04-24T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244784\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:15:08","slug":"police-activity-leads-to-delays-on-howard-frankland-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244784\/","title":{"rendered":"Police activity leads to delays on Howard Frankland Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Multiple lanes of the northbound lanes of the Howard Frankland have been blocked for hours Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, police activity led to the lane blockage just after 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The two inside northbound lanes heading into Hillsborough County were closed near the hump of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Delays have built back to 4th Street in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not said how long the activity may last.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and more information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Multiple lanes of the northbound lanes of the Howard Frankland have been blocked for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,115,596,277,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-244784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-public-safety","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244784","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=244784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}