{"id":66526,"date":"2025-12-01T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:56:14","slug":"tampa-police-officer-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66526\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police officer arrested on domestic violence charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa police officer was arrested Saturday after an investigation into an off-duty domestic violence incident that put a woman in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies responded to Brandon Regional Hospital Friday where a woman was being treated for injuries \u201cconsistent with a physical battery,\u201d according to a news release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office. After interviewing the woman and witnesses, detectives determined that Steven Barber, 47, \u201crepeatedly struck the victim by slapping, punching, and kicking her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barber also put the woman, who was known to him, in a headlock that \u201crestricted her ability to breathe,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A warrant was issued for his arrest, and Barber was taken into custody Saturday in Pinellas County on charges of domestic violence by strangulation, domestic violence battery and false imprisonment. Booking information and Barber\u2019s custody status were not available Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barber, who also serves as a special agent in the Army Reserve Criminal Investigations Division, had been on military deployment since March and planned to return to the police department in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He has been employed by the department since September 2007, according to a news release from the Tampa Police Department. The department put Barber on administrative leave during the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tampa police officer was arrested Saturday after an investigation into an off-duty domestic violence incident that put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9550,5713,18311,1599,39073,135,137,136,9822],"class_list":["post-66526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-brandon-regional-hospital","tag-domestic-violence","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office","tag-police-department","tag-steven-barber","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66526","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=66526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}