{"id":414983,"date":"2026-09-30T19:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:56:13","slug":"st-petersburg-man-arrested-for-dui-super-speeder-violation-on-i-275-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414983\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man arrested for DUI, &#8216;Super Speeder&#8217; violation on I-275"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 36-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested early Tuesday after troopers say he was driving more than 40 mph over the speed limit while impaired on Interstate 275.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an arrest affidavit, Kevin Pace, 36, was spotted around 4:18 a.m. driving southbound on I-275 near the Howard Frankland Bridge in Pinellas County. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper initially estimated the vehicle was traveling about 90 mph and later confirmed it at 93 mph in a posted 65 mph zone using radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trooper reported that Pace then rapidly accelerated and changed lanes in traffic. After catching up to the vehicle, the trooper paced it at 111 mph, leading to a charge of dangerous excessive speeding, commonly known as Florida&#8217;s &#8220;super speeder&#8221; law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the affidavit, Pace showed signs of impairment, including bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred speech, and the odor of alcohol. Investigators said Pace admitted to drinking a High Noon alcoholic beverage before driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Breath samples later registered 0.151 and 0.144, nearly double the legal limit of 0.08. Pace was arrested on charges of DUI and dangerous excessive speeding over 100 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested early Tuesday after troopers say he was driving more than 40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[618,42598,164393,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-414983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-interstate-275","tag-kevin-pace","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414983","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=414983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}