{"id":348844,"date":"2026-07-22T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:06:16","slug":"2-men-suspected-in-96k-vandalism-of-downtown-st-pete-tower-turn-themselves-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348844\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men suspected in $96k vandalism of downtown St. Pete tower turn themselves in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-pinellas\/vandals-cause-96k-in-damage-at-downtown-st-petersburg-tower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Two men suspected of tearing out landscaping lights and shattering windows<\/a> at a downtown St. Petersburg residential tower turned themselves in at the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784077103_245_.jpeg\" alt=\"Vandals cause $96K in damage at downtown St. Petersburg tower5.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said 34-year-old Andrew O\u2019Neill and 38-year-old James Boyle were identified in surveillance video as being the two men tied to the vandalism on July 11 at the Residences at 400 Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784743574_980_.png\" alt=\"Vandals cause $96K in damage at downtown St. Petersburg tower2.png\"  width=\"322\" height=\"475\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the men damaged 14 landscaping lights and broke three large windows, causing about $96,000 in damage. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784743574_793_.png\" alt=\"Vandals cause $96K in damage at downtown St. Petersburg tower.png\"  width=\"250\" height=\"207\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill and Boyle are charged with criminal mischief over $1,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SUV crashes into Carrollwood restaurant, narrowly missing workers and customers<\/p>\n<p>An SUV crashed into a Carrollwood restaurant Tuesday afternoon after the driver tried to avoid another vehicle in a shopping plaza.<\/p>\n<p>SUV crashes into Carrollwood restaurant, narrowly missing workers and customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men suspected of tearing out landscaping lights and shattering windows at a downtown St. Petersburg residential tower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[142771,142716,142717,596,107032,31319,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,8073,208],"class_list":["post-348844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-400-central-avenue","tag-andrew-oneill","tag-james-boyle","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-residences","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-vandalism","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348844","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=348844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}