{"id":418917,"date":"2026-10-05T03:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418917\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:58:45","slug":"police-issue-purple-alert-for-40-year-old-tampa-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418917\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue Purple Alert for 40-year-old Tampa woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Tampa Police Department issued a Purple Alert early Sunday morning for a woman they said might be in danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Samantha Jackson is 5 feet 10 inches, roughly 230 lbs., and was last seen the evening of Saturday, Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TPD said her last known location was near 8400 Rio Bravo Court in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She left the area driving a white Hyundai Sonata with the Florida tag SKAJ31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The police department said Jackson made statements to family and loved ones that left them concerned for her well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone who sees Jackson or has information about her whereabouts is asked to contact TPD at 813-231-6130.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Tampa Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418917","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\/418917","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=418917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}