{"id":373464,"date":"2026-08-17T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373464\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:46:35","slug":"multiple-people-arrested-during-coordinated-street-takeover-in-tampa-fhp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373464\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people arrested during &#8216;coordinated&#8217; street takeover in Tampa: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said multiple people were arrested early Saturday morning in a &#8220;coordinated&#8221; street takeover in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>At around 12:30 a.m., troopers responded to an industrial complex in the area of US-301 and Columbus Drive, where they say they found a large gathering of cars in a warehouse parking lot performing doughnuts, burnouts and drifting, with pedestrians spectating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to an affidavit, the cars started fleeing once they saw law enforcement, but troopers were able to position their cars at the only exit\/entrance to the commercial complex to prevent the suspects from leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Records show majority of the people arrested are in their late teens and early 20s, with many of them charged with unlawful racing on a highway while engaged in a coordinated street takeover.<\/p>\n<p>One driver was also charged with aggravated battery on law enforcement after ramming into a patrol car, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and troopers say the vehicles were towed and impounded for 30 business days in accordance with Florida Statute.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said multiple people were arrested early Saturday morning in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-373464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373464","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=373464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}