{"id":314482,"date":"2026-06-20T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:47:08","slug":"two-teens-arrested-after-armed-disturbance-at-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314482\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teens arrested after armed disturbance at mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRANDON, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Two teens were arrested following a disturbance involving armed suspects at Brandon Mall, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On June 18, deputies located two juvenile suspects, a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, who fled on foot through a nearby store and surrounding area. As deputies pursued them, the juveniles discarded a backpack containing a loaded AR-15-style firearm and later threw away a handgun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said they learned the suspects had threatened a victim and implied they were armed, causing her to fear for her safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The teens were arrested, the firearms were recovered, and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/19\/two-dead-apparent-domestic-shooting-brandon\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/19\/two-dead-apparent-domestic-shooting-brandon\/\">Victim and suspect identified in Brandon death investigation, deputies say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 16-year-old was charged with child violation of probation, resisting an officer without violence, possession of a firearm by a minor, disrupting a school function or lawful assembly, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 15-year-old was charged with resisting an officer without violence, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a minor, disrupting a school function or lawful assembly, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANDON, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Two teens were arrested following a disturbance involving armed suspects at Brandon Mall, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-314482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314482","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=314482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}