{"id":260073,"date":"2026-05-06T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:13:40","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-tampa-robbery-assault-of-82-year-old-woman-tpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260073\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Tampa robbery, assault of 82-year-old woman: TPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department (TPD) said the suspect involved in the robbery and assault of an 82-year-old woman is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>TPD said it has arrested Joseph Wren, 57, and charged him with robbery in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was walking near a bus stop at West Hillsborough Avenue and North Habana Avenue at around 7:45 p.m. on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>As she walked past the suspect, the report said he grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground, causing her to lose consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then took her bag and fled the area on a bicycle, per TPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman was transported to the hospital and has since been released as she continues to recover.<\/p>\n<p>TPD said officers spotted Wren on May 5 in the afternoon near Nebraska Avenue and was arrested with out incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2 children, mother and grandmother killed; shooting investigation underway: Plant City police<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 reporter Julie Salomone spoke to neighbors after Plant City police found two children, their mother and grandmother dead.<\/p>\n<p>2 kids, mother and grandmother killed; investigation underway: Plant City police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department (TPD) said the suspect involved in the robbery and assault of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[112503,8128,276,132,14040,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-260073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-82-year-old-woman","tag-assault","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260073","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=260073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}