Tampa Police arrested a father and son Sunday on carjacking and rape charges.<\/p>\n
According to the report, at 4:34 a. m. Sunday, Rakeith Brooks<\/strong>, 30, and Vincent Harrison<\/strong>, 46, approached a couple in the 900 block of East Broad Street.<\/p>\n Police said Brooks<\/strong> pointed a handgun at the heads of the victims and told them to hand over their money. When the male victim told them he had no money, police said he was struck on the head with the handgun. Brooks<\/strong> then reportedly grabbed the female victim by the throat and pushed her to the ground. Brooks reportedly sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n Police said Harrison<\/strong> and Brooks<\/strong> then ordered the victims to lay on the ground and fled in the victim\u2019s BMW, which had cell phones, and I-Pad and other property inside.<\/p>\n At 5:45 a. m., police communications received a call that a bullet was shot into an apartment wall at 110 East Broad Street, nearly hitting the homeowner. Police responded and said the bullet came from an adjoining apartment. Officers went to that apartment and made contact with the people inside, one of them telling officers the gun had been accidentally fired by her friend, Brooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n After consenting to allow police to search the apartment, officers found the cell phones and other property taken during the earlier robbery, including keys to the stolen vehicle. Officers also found two handguns, and reported finding the stolen vehicle in the parking lot of the apartment complex.<\/p>\n Harrison<\/strong> and Brooks<\/strong>, later identified as father and son, were arrested after a witness reported they were trying to sell stolen property, including the stolen vehicle. Both are being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tampa Police arrested a father and son Sunday on carjacking and rape charges. According to the report, at 4:34 a. m. Sunday, Rakeith Brooks, 30, and Vincent Harrison, 46, approached a couple in the 900 block of East Broad Street. Police said Brooks pointed a handgun at the heads of the victims and told them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}