{"id":307197,"date":"2026-06-14T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:20:34","slug":"mulberry-man-arrested-for-dui-manslaughter-after-fatal-hillsborough-co-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307197\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulberry man arrested for DUI manslaughter after fatal Hillsborough Co. crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Mulberry man was arrested Friday morning after troopers said he caused a fatal motorcycle crash on State Road 60 while driving under the influence, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 6:45 a.m. near Clarence Gordon Jr Road. FHP said a GMC Sierra driven by 59-year-old Santiago Ruiz Rangel was exiting a private driveway when it entered the path of a westbound Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by a 44-year-old Bartow man.<\/p>\n<p>The truck struck the motorcycle, killing the rider at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>FHP said Rangel\u2019s blood alcohol content measured 0.170\u2014more than twice Florida\u2019s legal limit. He was arrested for DUI manslaughter and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUSAN.ELKHOURY.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Family charged hundreds for car towed from paid lot during downtown Tampa event<\/p>\n<p>A family claims a 17-year-old was waved into a parking spot by an attendant, paid $45 to park, and still had her grandfather&#8217;s truck towed during a Lightning playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>Family charged hundreds for car towed from paid lot during downtown Tampa event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Mulberry man was arrested Friday morning after troopers said he caused a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8118,5695,1056,618,276,26732,128340,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136],"class_list":["post-307197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bartow","tag-dui","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-mulberry","tag-santiago-ruiz-rangel","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307197","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=307197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}