{"id":11938,"date":"2012-08-20T21:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=11938"},"modified":"2012-08-20T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:55:54","slug":"elderly-couple-robbed-and-kidnapped-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/elderly-couple-robbed-and-kidnapped-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Couple Robbed and <br>Kidnapped In Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11939\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/elderly-couple-robbed-and-kidnapped-in-lehigh-acres\/wentela-brett-alan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11939\" title=\"WENTELA, BRETT ALAN\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WENTELA-BRETT-ALAN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRETT ALAN WENTELA,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple was robbed by a thief with a knife, who also forced them to drop him off at a hotel. John\u00a0Pankavich and his wife, Joan, say they were sleeping Sunday morning when a man woke them up in their bedroom around 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11949\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/elderly-couple-robbed-and-kidnapped-in-lehigh-acres\/john-pankavich-and-his-wife-joan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949\" title=\"John Pankavich and his wife, Joan\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/John-Pankavich-and-his-wife-Joan-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/John-Pankavich-and-his-wife-Joan-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/John-Pankavich-and-his-wife-Joan.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Pankavich and his wife, Joan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple says the suspect, Brett Wentela, waived a knife at them inside their Thompson Avenue home, holding the couple\u00a0 for four hours. According to an arrest report, Wentela took\u00a0$600 in cash, a $600 laptop, a $500 class ring and six pairs of boxer shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say the suspect then forced the couple to drive him to the\u00a0Wonderland Motel in North Fort Myers. A detailed description by the Pankaviches and other witnesses led investigators to Wentela who is being charged with kidnapping and home invasion with a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple was robbed by a thief with a knife, who also forced them to drop him off at a hotel. John\u00a0Pankavich and his wife, Joan, say they were sleeping&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}