{"id":351681,"date":"2026-07-24T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351681\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:49:52","slug":"caught-on-camera-traffic-stop-in-hillsborough-ends-in-rollover-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351681\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on Camera: Traffic stop in Hillsborough ends in rollover crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A traffic stop ended in a chase and rollover crash when the suspect tried to get away, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On July 22 at about 9 p.m., deputies attempted a traffic stop on a black Chevrolet Malibu for multiple traffic violations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Instead of stopping, the driver took off, hitting deputy\u2019s patrol vehicle in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An aviation unit kept eyes on the suspect from above while deputies deployed a grappler to bring the car to a stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said Willie Lee Gant III, 37, has a documented history of fleeing from law enforcement and more than 21 prior arrests in Hillsborough County alone. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A traffic stop ended in a chase and rollover crash when the suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12775,143815,629,135,137,136,143816,1045],"class_list":["post-351681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chase","tag-gant","tag-hillsborough","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-traffi","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351681","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=351681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}