{"id":75165,"date":"2025-12-08T04:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75165\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:32:27","slug":"tampa-woman-walking-dog-on-i-275-arrested-after-resisting-trooper-fhp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75165\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa woman walking dog on I-275 arrested after resisting trooper: FHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tampa woman walking on Interstate 275 with her dog was arrested Friday after resisting a state trooper while being cited, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While troopers were preparing the citation, 23-year-old Desire McPherson walked away and refused to listen to troopers. She was detained and taken to the ground by a trooper after she became aggressive and continued to resist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McPherson faces charges of disobeying law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA &#8211; A Tampa woman walking on Interstate 275 with her dog was arrested Friday after resisting a state trooper while being cited, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/st-pete-man-tortures-kills-2-pet-birds-affidavit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Pete man tortures, kills 2 pet birds: affidavit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">St. Pete man tortures, kills 2 pet birds: affidavit<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to FHP, Desire McPherson, 23, was walking with a dog southbound on I-275 near Busch Boulevard when troopers responded to the area at around 9:57 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/883145a6b628bc72a2e08336e0c0b514.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McPherson told troopers she was unaware that it was illegal to walk on the intestate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers decided to issue McPherson a citation, recognizing her from a previous incident when she was warned for walking on the interstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While troopers were preparing the citation, McPherson walked away and refused to listen to troopers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McPherson was detained and taken to the ground by a trooper after she became aggressive and continued to resist, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McPherson faces charges of disobeying law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FHP says the dog, named Duke, has a chip. Animal control is investigating to find out who he belongs to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was provided by the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Tampa woman walking on Interstate 275 with her dog was arrested Friday after resisting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42597,1827,1056,618,42598,37896,135,137,136,8774,10464],"class_list":{"0":"post-75165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-desire-mcpherson","9":"tag-dog","10":"tag-fhp","11":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","12":"tag-interstate-275","13":"tag-state-trooper","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-trooper","18":"tag-troopers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75165","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=75165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}