{"id":142021,"date":"2025-12-11T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=142021"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:38:13","slug":"woman-arrested-walking-dog-on-interstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=142021","title":{"rendered":"Woman Arrested Walking Dog On Interstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-142014\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Desire-McPherson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Desire-McPherson.jpg 398w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Desire-McPherson-157x160.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>DESIRE MCPHERSON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Tampa woman walking on Interstate 275 with her dog, named <strong>Duke,<\/strong> was arrested Friday after resisting a state trooper while being cited, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to police, while troopers were preparing the citation, 23-year-old <strong>Desire McPherson<\/strong> 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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McPherson<\/strong> told troopers she was unaware that it was illegal to walk on the intestate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Troopers decided to issue <strong>McPherson<\/strong> a citation, recognizing her from a previous incident when she was warned for walking on the interstate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0McPherson<\/strong> faces charges of disobeying law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DESIRE MCPHERSON \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Tampa woman walking on Interstate 275 with her dog, named Duke, was arrested Friday after resisting a state trooper while being cited, the Florida Highway Patrol said. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to police, while troopers were preparing the citation, 23-year-old Desire McPherson walked away and refused to listen to troopers. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142021","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\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142023,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142021\/revisions\/142023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}