{"id":322928,"date":"2026-06-29T00:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:52:23","slug":"it-was-horrendous-st-pete-police-say-garbage-truck-driver-ran-woman-over-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322928\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was horrendous\u2019: St. Pete police say garbage truck driver ran woman over twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A St. Petersburg garbage truck driver is accused of hitting and killing a woman along his route Saturday morning and fleeing the scene without calling for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cA delivery truck driver that said, \u2018Hey, be careful, there\u2019s some people back there,\u2019\u201d said St. Pete Police Chief Anthony Holloway.<\/p>\n

Police say 51-year-old Nathan Brown was headed into an alley off of 3rd St. North in downtown St. Pete to pick up a dumpster in the back of the alley.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen he backed up, he struck the victim, and when he went forward, he struck the victim again, and then he just went forward and went on with his route,\u201d said Holloway.<\/p>\n

According to police, Brown admitted to seeing the woman on his way out of the alley. Police caught up with Brown later in his route and arrested him on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving a death<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrendous,\u201d said John Burke, who knew the victim.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t3-year-old hospitalized after being left alone in hot car for hours, Florida police say\t<\/a><\/p>\n

Burke said he was sleeping next to the 49-year-old woman, identified as Candice Roberts, when it happened. He said it had been a while since they\u2019d seen her, and that she told them she had recently come back from recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cCandy, as we called her, was very kind,\u201d said Burke. \u201cShe was very, very patient, very, very kind in every instance of her nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police believe that Roberts was experiencing homelessness and are still working to notify her family.<\/p>\n

A local business owner told News Channel 8 off-camera that the area has become a popular spot for people to camp out overnight.<\/p>\n

Brown has since bonded out of jail. SPPD says its investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A St. Petersburg garbage truck driver is accused of hitting and killing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-322928","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\/322928","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=322928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}