{"id":368585,"date":"2026-08-11T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:54:08","slug":"man-who-escaped-tampa-mental-facility-is-recaptured-in-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368585\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who escaped Tampa mental facility is recaptured in traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A dangerous felon who escaped a Tampa mental health facility Aug. 3 is back behind bars, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dallas Dishman Jr., 36, was captured Aug. 9 during a traffic stop of a car he was a passenger in, the sheriff\u2019s office said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dishman has an extensive violent criminal history and multiple active warrants. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance, 18 bench felony warrants, robbery by sudden snatching and escape from a civil or forensic facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Previous coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/04\/police-looking-suspect-who-escaped-tampa-mental-health-facility\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/04\/police-looking-suspect-who-escaped-tampa-mental-health-facility\/\">Police looking for suspect who escaped Tampa mental health facility<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dishman had been missing after he escaped from a court-ordered health care facility on Henry Avenue, the Tampa Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hillsborough County Court records indicate Dishman has had a lengthy history of felony arrests including assault and drug charges but has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A dangerous felon who escaped a Tampa mental health facility Aug. 3 is back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[147404,149268,629,97218,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-368585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-dishman","tag-esacpe","tag-hillsborough","tag-mental","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368585","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=368585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}