{"id":391289,"date":"2026-09-05T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:14:31","slug":"video-police-seek-suspect-in-armed-robbery-at-tampa-family-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391289\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Police seek suspect in armed robbery at Tampa Family Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 An investigation is underway into an armed robbery that occurred at a Family Dollar in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Tampa Police Department, on August 31, officers responded to the Family Dollar located at 4900 N. 40th Street, following an armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance video from the business captured the armed suspect entering the store and demanding money from the employee before fleeing on foot and heading north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tampa Police Department has released the video of the suspect in hopes that someone may be able to identify him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect in the video appears to be around 250 pounds, with his face partially covered. At the time of the robbery, he is shown wearing a black hoodie, long blue pants, and black slides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information that could assist detectives with this case should call Tampa Police at 813-231-6130 and reference report #26-516424.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 An investigation is underway into an armed robbery that occurred at a Family Dollar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,154708,567],"class_list":["post-391289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-tampa-police-department","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391289","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=391289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}