{"id":371378,"date":"2026-08-14T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371378\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:16:09","slug":"3-arrested-in-hillsborough-commercial-burglary-sting-officers-gun-accidentally-discharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371378\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested in Hillsborough commercial burglary sting; officer\u2019s gun accidentally discharged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Tampa police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested three burglary suspects early Friday following an overnight surveillance operation tied to a string of commercial burglaries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers observed the suspects target a McDonald\u2019s before burglarizing Taiwan Express in Gibsonton, according to Tampa police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/13\/tampa-man-charged-with-exposing-himself-children-way-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/13\/tampa-man-charged-with-exposing-himself-children-way-school\/\">Tampa man charged with exposing himself to children on the way to school<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As officers moved in at Taiwan Express, one suspect fled through a rear exit and physically resisted arrest, according to a preliminary Tampa Police Department release. An officer\u2019s gun was accidentally discharged during the struggle, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No suspects, officers, deputies or bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation remains active. Tampa police said additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested three burglary suspects early Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150141,150140,150139,135,150138,137,136,150142],"class_list":["post-371378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-accidental-gun-discharge-tampa-police","tag-gibsonton-taiwan-express-burglary","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff-commercial-burglary","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-burglary-arrests","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-overnight-surveillance-operation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371378","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=371378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}