{"id":344010,"date":"2026-07-17T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:15:07","slug":"hillsborough-deputy-charged-with-stalking-woman-after-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344010\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough deputy charged with stalking woman after traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy was arrested July 17 for stalking a woman after a traffic stop, the sheriff\u2019s office said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives say on July 7 at 10:22 p.m., Deputy Andrew Brown, 39, conducted a traffic stop on the victim and obtained her phone number. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the traffic stop, Brown sent the victim continuous unwanted messages, even after being blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown has been employed with HCSO for nine months. He has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal and administrative investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen someone puts on our uniform, they take on a responsibility to serve with integrity. The badge is a symbol of trust, and this deputy betrayed that trust,\u201d said Sheriff Chad Chronister. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThat is a violation of everything HCSO stands for, and it makes me furious. We will hold him accountable, just as we would anyone else who breaks the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is continuing. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy was arrested July 17 for stalking a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[692,9691,4561,629,11108,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-344010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-arrest","tag-brown","tag-deputy","tag-hillsborough","tag-stalking","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344010","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=344010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}