ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against Nathan Brown, a St. Petersburg garbage truck driver who drove over a woman sleeping in a downtown alley, killing her, at the end of last month, according to Pinellas County court records. <\/p>\n
The 51-year-old city sanitation employee was operating the garbage truck when he drove over the woman, who was lying across the alley, the morning of May 30 and didn\u2019t stop, St. Petersburg police said. <\/p>\n
According to his arrest affidavit, Brown was warned by a bystander that there were people sleeping in the alley as he tried to reverse down it to hook up the dumpster to the truck. <\/p>\n
Brown was initially charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death. <\/p>\n
He was jailed and released on a $50,000 bond after his arrest. <\/p>\n
Now, the case is listed as closed in Pinellas County court records, and the charges have been dropped. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe State Attorney, having taken testimony under oath at a State Attorney investigation, concludes that the facts and circumstances revealed do not warrant prosecution,\u201d according to a Friday afternoon filing by Bruce Bartlett, state attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against Nathan Brown, a St. Petersburg garbage truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-300293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300293","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=300293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}