{"id":425999,"date":"2026-10-12T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:10:07","slug":"tampa-officers-suspect-hurt-after-patrol-vehicle-strikes-them-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425999\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa officers, suspect hurt after patrol vehicle strikes them during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Two Tampa police officers and a suspect were injured Monday when a responding officer\u2019s vehicle struck them during an arrest, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident happened in the 2300 block of East Busch Avenue as officers served an arrest warrant connected to an ongoing narcotics investigation, according to the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the suspect ran as officers attempted to take him into custody. Officers ordered the suspect to get on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/26\/tampa-arrest-after-breaching-macdill-perimeter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/26\/tampa-arrest-after-breaching-macdill-perimeter\/\">Civilian detained after breaching MacDill Air Force Base perimeter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While officers were taking the suspect into custody, another officer drove into the parking lot and unintentionally struck the officers and the suspect, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two officers and the suspect were taken to a hospital. Their injuries were not life-threatening, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the circumstances of the crash remain under review. The department did not release the names of those involved or details about the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Two Tampa police officers and a suspect were injured Monday when a responding officer\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167559,135,137,167560,136,167561,167557,167558],"class_list":["post-425999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-east-busch-avenue-arrest","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-narcotics-investigation-warrant","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department-crash-review","tag-tampa-police-officers-struck","tag-tampa-police-vehicle-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425999","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=425999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}