{"id":250818,"date":"2026-04-29T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:00:09","slug":"st-pete-police-force-way-into-home-to-save-kidnapping-victim-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250818\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police force way into home to save kidnapping victim: affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 St. Petersburg police forced their way into a home on Sunday to save a kidnapping victim, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Pinellas County arrest affidavit, Michael Warren, 36, was observed by several witnesses pushing the victim, and his girlfriend, against a vehicle in an alleyway behind their St. Petersburg home.<\/p>\n<p>He was also seen pulling her hair and then picked up and slammed to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>He then carried her into the home.<\/p>\n<p>When St. Petersburg Police Department arrived, they could hear the victim crying inside the home, but nobody came to the door when they tried to make contact, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then forced their way inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Warren refused verbal commands by officers and tried to retreat into a bathroom before he was tased and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered bruising on her upper left shoulder and the right side of her lower back, the affidavit stated.<\/p>\n<p>Warren was arrested and charged with kidnapping, domestic battery and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ERIK.WAXLER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BTS opens North American tour in Tampa, drawing thousands of fans to sold out shows<\/p>\n<p>K-pop superstars return after pandemic hiatus and military service, launching three-night run at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>BTS opens North American tour in Tampa, drawing thousands of fans to sold out shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 St. Petersburg police forced their way into a home on Sunday to save a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[109702,320,6008,596,107032,132,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-250818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-forced","tag-home","tag-kidnapping","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-police","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250818","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=250818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}