{"id":348785,"date":"2026-07-22T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:04:46","slug":"st-pete-police-identify-two-men-accused-of-vandalizing-400-central-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348785\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police identify two men accused of vandalizing 400 Central building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Pete Police Department has identified both men seen on surveillance video vandalizing a luxury condo building downtown earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andrew O&#8217;Neill, 34, and James Boyle, 38, allegedly tore up landscaping lights and broke three large windows at the Residences at 400 Central, causing a total of $96,000 in damages on July 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are both charged with with felony criminal mischief involving damages over $1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">O&#8217;Neill was arrested on July 18, just days after the St. Petersburg police asked for the public&#8217;s help finding them. A witness identified O&#8217;Neill from the surveillance footage, according to his arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">O&#8217;Neill was filmed kicking and throwing 14 landscaping lights, which have replacement costs estimated at about $1,500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said O&#8217;Neill was accompanied by Boyle, who allegedly damaged three windows valued at approximately $25,000 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the men turned themselves in to the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Pete Police Department has identified both men seen on surveillance video vandalizing a luxury condo building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[142496,142717,142719,202,204,203,199,201,200,6809],"class_list":["post-348785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-andrew-o39neill","tag-james-boyle","tag-landscaping-lights","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-surveillance-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348785","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=348785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}