{"id":403634,"date":"2026-09-18T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403634\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:10:24","slug":"police-buccaneer-legend-warren-sapp-disrupts-tampa-council-meeting-asked-to-leave-newsradio-wfla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403634\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Buccaneer Legend Warren Sapp Disrupts Tampa Council Meeting, Asked to Leave | NewsRadio WFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Tampa, FL) &#8211; Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Warren Sapp is accused of disrupting a Tampa City Council meeting.  According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/2026\/09\/17\/police-bucs-hall-famer-warren-sapp-disrupts-tampa-council-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a>, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman entered city hall yesterday afternoon and went into an office that&#8217;s next to the city council chambers.  According to Sapp he was at City Hall to pick up \u201csome paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council Chair Alan Clendenin paused the meeting and asked that the doors to the chambers be locked, according to the Times.   The meeting was paused again a few minutes later, and Sapp was ordered to leave the building, but he refused.  Police responded, but no arrest was announced.    <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Police statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tampa Police Department, in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times, said, \u201cThis afternoon Warren Sapp went to City Council Chambers. Council found him to be out of order by creating a disturbance and requested him to be trespassed for the day. Officers responded and asked Sapp to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Tampa, FL) &#8211; Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Warren Sapp is accused of disrupting a Tampa City Council meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35040,7453,132,135,160546,137,136,160547],"class_list":["post-403634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-buccaneer","tag-meeting","tag-police","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-council","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-warren-sapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403634","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=403634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}