{"id":339939,"date":"2026-07-14T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339939\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:11:11","slug":"2-tampa-men-charged-after-zip-tying-victims-robbing-apartment-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339939\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Tampa men charged after zip-tying victims, robbing apartment: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Department of Justice said a federal grand jury indicted two Tampa men for conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOJ, 47-year-old Jay El Wilburn and 27-year-old Alvaughn Parker conspired to commit armed robbery in Tampa on Jan. 20. The DOJ said they entered an apartment in Tampa with firearms and restrained victims by zip-tying their hands behind their backs. One of the victims was a 13-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment said Wilburn and Parker then stole cash, controlled substances, firearms, jewelry and other personal items before leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 2, ATF agents executed a search warrant on Wilburn&#8217;s home and recovered the gun that was used in the robbery. <\/p>\n<p>Wilburn and Parker were charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, robbery, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence. Wilburn was charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon since he had prior felony convictions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ROBERT.BOYD.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Father searches for answers after son&#8217;s death inside Dick&#8217;s House of Sports<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 15-year-old Jaden Law was found dead inside a fitting room at the Dick&#8217;s House of Sports at Brandon Exchange following gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>Father searches for answers after son&#8217;s death inside Dick&#8217;s House of Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Department of Justice said a federal grand jury indicted two Tampa men for conspiracy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[139679,276,139680,139681,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-339939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-alvaughn-parker","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-hobbs-act","tag-jay-el-wilburn","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339939","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=339939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}