{"id":67001,"date":"2025-12-01T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:29:08","slug":"grey-bull-rescue-prepares-for-venezuelan-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67001\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Bull Rescue prepares for Venezuelan rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern said the group is preparing personnel and equipment to respond to Venezuela to rescue Americans who may become trapped there if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hostilities between the U.S. and Venezuela continue<\/a> to escalate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The U.S. has destroyed 21 alleged drug boats in international waters and off the coast of Venezuela. President Donald Trump is demanding that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro give up power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/stimulus-payment-december-2025-irs-direct-deposit-relief-payment-tariff-dividend-fact-check\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stimulus payment December 2025, IRS direct deposit relief payment &amp; tariff dividend fact check<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Stern said his group is ready to deploy there at any moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/venezuela.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;What I know is Maduro&#8217;s time is limited,&#8221; Stern told FOX 13 News. &#8220;We could definitely have a very real American hostage situation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Stern said his group, which goes unarmed, uses intelligence methods such as deception to rescue hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/cory-booker-marries-partner-alexis-lewis-two-separate-ceremonies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Booker marries partner Alexis Lewis in two separate ceremonies<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Grey Bull will finalize planning and stage personnel and equipment in various locations. Stern said he has been watching Venezuela and planning since the first Trump Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">For more information on the organization, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/greybullrescue.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">greybullrescue.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was provided by Grey Bull Rescue. The Associated Press also contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern said the group is preparing personnel and equipment to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,629,115,99,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,628],"class_list":["post-67001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67001","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=67001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}