The Brief<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old was arrested on Sunday after participating in a street takeover on Hillsborough Avenue, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the driver participated in an illegal vehicle takeover and ran from a traffic stop on Hillsborough Avenue.<\/p>\n
A state trooper used a PIT maneuver to stop the car and discovered a police radio scanner inside the center console.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. – An 18-year-old Riverview man was arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly participating in a street takeover and running from state troopers on Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa.<\/p>\n
Tampa street takeover pursuit<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, troopers observed multiple vehicles weaving through traffic and performing burnouts during an illegal vehicle takeover on eastbound State Road-580, also known as Hillsborough Avenue.<\/p>\n
One trooper attempted to stop a white Dodge Challenger that was driving recklessly, but troopers say the driver accelerated away on westbound Hillsborough Avenue.<\/p>\n
A trooper in pursuit caught up with the Challenger, when the driver slowed down before suddenly driving off again at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n
The trooper then executed a PIT maneuver, immobilizing the Challenger at 1:34 a.m.<\/p>\n
During a search, troopers found an active police radio scanner inside the center console cupholder that FHP said was being used to track law enforcement radio traffic.<\/p>\n
The driver, Rodrigo Rivera-Montano, 18, was placed into custody and booked into jail.<\/p>\n
Rivera-Montano faces charges of unlawful racing on a highway and a felony charge of fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer.<\/p>\n
Hillsborough Avenue racing investigation<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
Authorities have not released information regarding whether other drivers or spectators involved in the street takeover were identified or arrested.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This article was written using information from the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief An 18-year-old was arrested on Sunday after participating in a street takeover on Hillsborough Avenue, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[618,101565,26713,131088,77617,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-315073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-hillsborough-avenue","tag-pit-maneuver","tag-police-radio-scanner","tag-takeover","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315073","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=315073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}