{"id":266426,"date":"2026-05-11T10:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:38:46","slug":"tampa-police-officer-arrested-on-dui-charges-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266426\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police officer arrested on DUI charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa police officer was relieved of duty and faces DUI charges after a traffic stop Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tampa Police Department says Kevin Casazza, an off-duty probationary officer, was arrested just before midnight while driving on I-275.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casazza, who was hired last year, was &#8220;immediately relieved of duty,&#8221; TPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This incident is deeply disappointing,&#8221; said Chief Lee Bercaw. &#8220;Every employee, on or off duty, is expected to hold themselves to the highest standards. That also includes our officers abiding by the same laws they swore to uphold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police will conduct and internal investigation into Casazza&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tampa police officer was relieved of duty and faces DUI charges after a traffic stop Saturday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26411,114460,114469,135,137,136,3793],"class_list":["post-266426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chief-lee-bercaw","tag-kevin-casazza","tag-probationary-officer","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266426","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=266426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}