{"id":364850,"date":"2026-08-07T01:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364850\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:13:01","slug":"teen-charged-in-davis-islands-dog-park-attack-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364850\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged in\u00a0Davis Islands dog park attack pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wigy1zw0i8rmk425.jpg\" alt=\"Dog park beating suspect enters plea\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wigy1zw0i8rmk425.jpg\" alt=\"Dog park beating suspect enters plea\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-50c11e5b=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A teenager pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/davis-islands-attack-teens-charged-will-have-chance-be-free-before-trials-judge-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">violent attack at the Davis Islands Dog Park in Tampa.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   Tampa dog park attack <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Jace Villanueva, who was 16 at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to charges of battery and burglary on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In a plea deal, attorneys agreed that he will serve a total of eight years of probation, complete 200 hours of community service, and attend behavioral therapy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PREVIOUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/davis-islands-attack-teens-charged-will-have-chance-be-free-before-trials-judge-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Davis Islands attack: Teens charged will have chance to be free before their trials, judge rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The judge also ordered Villanueva to have no contact with the victim or his co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Six teenagers were originally charged after a video showed a group pulling another teen from a truck and beating him until he was unconscious.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Defense attorneys argued that the victim instigated the attack by posting a social media message containing threats and racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A judge previously described the video recording as &#8220;horrifying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Davis Islands attack investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear where each of the other co-defendants&#8217; cases stand.<\/p>\n<p> Teen sentenced in beating <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;You are in charge and responsible, and these events are quite horrific,&#8221; the judge told Villaneuva on Thursday. &#8220;For some people, they&#8217;re life-changing. It&#8217;s up to you to determine what effect it has on the rest of your life. You&#8217;re being given a withhold of adjudication. You may not yet appreciate the value of that. It&#8217;s a gift. Don&#8217;t mess it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A teenager pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a violent attack at the Davis Islands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,629,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-364850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364850","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=364850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}