{"id":415449,"date":"2026-10-01T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415449\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:58:16","slug":"pinellas-park-woman-arrested-after-alleged-80-mph-chase-ends-near-boca-ciega-bay-in-gulfport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415449\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park woman arrested after alleged 80 mph chase ends near Boca Ciega Bay in Gulfport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GULFPORT, Fla. \u2014 A 28-year-old woman was arrested after Gulfport police said she led officers on a high-speed pursuit through a residential area before crashing near Boca Ciega Bay and attempting to hide in a retirement community building.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest affidavits, Mollie Parsons, 28, of Pinellas Park, was spotted Sept. 27 near 24th Avenue South and 58th Street South. An officer reported seeing a vehicle accelerate through an intersection and travel against traffic before attempting a traffic stop.<\/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>Police said Parsons failed to stop and instead sped away, reaching approximately 80 mph in a residential neighborhood. They say the pursuit ended when the vehicle crashed through a red safety reflector sign at the end of 58th Street South and almost entered Boca Ciega Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Parsons then abandoned the vehicle and ran through an abandoned apartment complex before entering the Town Shores retirement community. Officers later found her hiding in a utility closet on the seventh floor of a condominium building.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Gulfport Police Department\u00a0arrested Parsons\u00a0on charges of fleeing and eluding law enforcement at high speed and leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage. She is being held in the Pinellas County Jail on a $10,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GULFPORT, Fla. \u2014 A 28-year-old woman was arrested after Gulfport police said she led officers on a high-speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-415449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","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\/415449","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=415449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}