{"id":301044,"date":"2026-06-09T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301044\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:54:18","slug":"st-pete-rapper-arrested-in-pasco-county-after-fleeing-traffic-stop-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301044\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Rapper Arrested In Pasco County After Fleeing Traffic Stop: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PASCO COUNTY, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg rapper was arrested Sunday afternoon in Pasco County after fleeing a traffic stop in Largo on Saturday, Florida Highway Patrol said in a social media post. <\/p>\n<p>Marcus Dudley, 27, who performs under the name \u201cOTM Ruger,\u201d was spotted on State Road 54 near Seven Springs Boulevard in New Port Richey around 4 p.m. (Watch a video of his chase through Pasco County leading to his arrest below.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was in a car that matched the description of the vehicle that fled from the Largo traffic stop the day before and was detected by a license plate reader, <a href=\"https:\/\/iontb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">IONTB.com<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers tried to pull Dudley over for having tinted windows, but he took off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/video\/news\/st-petersburg-rapper-arrested-in-pasco-county\/67-b1fba7ab-6a1e-40fb-abf0-d4d574bd1776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WTSP said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He led FHP on a chance before being \u201csidelined\u201d by a trooper in a patrol vehicle on Perrine Ranch Road, the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>He was charged with fleeing and eluding law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video from the chase below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PASCO COUNTY, FL \u2014 A St. Petersburg rapper was arrested Sunday afternoon in Pasco County after fleeing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-301044","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\/301044","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=301044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}