{"id":356484,"date":"2026-07-29T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:50:07","slug":"caught-on-camera-hillsborough-county-man-arrested-after-ruskin-boat-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356484\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on camera: Hillsborough County man arrested after Ruskin boat burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RUSKIN, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A convicted felon confessed to the crime, Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even wearing a Superman costume didn\u2019t keep him out of handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Ruskin boat owner got an unwelcome surprise July 25 after discovering someone had broken into the cabin of their vessel, anchored right behind their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies responded to the scene and launched an investigation into the break-in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say the suspect didn\u2019t get far, and was identified as James Tidwell, 57, a convicted felon. Body camera video shows Tidwell apparently confessing to the burglary, in full superhero regalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Several power tools were reported stolen from the boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tidwell was arrested and charged with burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and first-degree petit theft. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUSKIN, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A convicted felon confessed to the crime, Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies say. Even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1890,3321,27013,629,2631,145465,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-356484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-boat","tag-burglary","tag-felon","tag-hillsborough","tag-sheriff","tag-superman","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356484","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=356484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}