{"id":91222,"date":"2025-12-21T06:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:17:46","slug":"body-pulled-from-submerged-truck-in-st-petersburg-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91222\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Pulled From Submerged Truck In St. Petersburg Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Police-Lights-News-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Police-Lights-News-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press)\" class=\"wp-image-243698\" title=\"Body Pulled From Submerged Truck In St. Petersburg Bayou 1\"  \/><\/a>Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press)<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 UPDATED REPORT HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/st-petersburg-man-dies-after-truck-crashes-through-dead-end-and-into-water\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Man Dies After Truck Crashes Through Dead End And Into Water<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A startling scene unfolded in St. Petersburg Saturday morning after a passerby spotted a pickup truck resting upside down in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the call came in just before 7:30 a.m. near the intersection of 62nd Avenue North and Bayou Grande Boulevard. When St. Pete Fire Rescue crews arrived at the water\u2019s edge, they confirmed the worst: the body of an adult man was discovered inside the cab.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/ms-13-trio-handed-life-sentences-for-maryland-machete-attacks-stabbing-victim-143-times\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS-13 Trio Handed Life Sentences For Maryland Machete Attacks, Stabbing Victim 143 Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was located just a few feet from the shore, but investigators are still working to piece together how it ended up there. Preliminary checks show the truck had not been reported stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have taken over the scene to determine the timeline of events. Officials have not yet released the man\u2019s identity or further details regarding the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Please make a small\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=KWYEB8X3JQ2MY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">donation to the Tampa Free Press to help sustain independent journalism<\/a>. Your contribution enables us to continue delivering high-quality, local, and national news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up:\u00a0Subscribe to our free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tampafp.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for a curated selection of top stories delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 UPDATED REPORT HERE: St. Petersburg Man Dies After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-91222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91222","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=91222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}