{"id":264992,"date":"2026-05-09T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:55:07","slug":"tampa-police-arrest-22-after-teen-takeover-disrupts-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264992\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police arrest 22 after \u2018teen takeover\u2019 disrupts park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police Department (TPD) arrested 22 people ranging in age from 12 to 21 following a large \u201cteen takeover\u201d gathering Friday night at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the crowd caused major disruptions in and around the park on May 8, including fights, disorderly behavior and other public safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers were deployed to the area to break up the gathering and restore order, according to TPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/05\/08\/school-app-cyberattack-affected-suncoast-schools\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/05\/08\/school-app-cyberattack-affected-suncoast-schools\/\">School app cyberattack affected Suncoast schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The arrests included charges such as affray, possession of narcotics, resisting an officer without violence and unlawful possession of a weapon. Officers also recovered two firearms and seized one vehicle connected to the disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement, Tampa police said the growing \u201ctakeover\u201d trend has become a concern for communities nationwide as summer approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLocally, we remain committed to supporting long-standing summer safety initiatives designed to keep young people engaged, connected, and safe,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Police Department (TPD) arrested 22 people ranging in age from 12 to 21&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[114167,135,137,136,78492,114166,114165],"class_list":["post-264992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-speed-run","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-teen-takeover","tag-teen-trends","tag-tik-tok-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264992","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=264992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}