{"id":16388,"date":"2012-12-05T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=16388"},"modified":"2012-12-05T22:46:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:46:40","slug":"civilian-tackles-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/civilian-tackles-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Tackles Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/civilian-tackles-suspect\/arrested-phillips-and-rossi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16389\" title=\"Arrested Phillips and Rossi\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Arrested-Phillips-and-Rossi-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Arrested-Phillips-and-Rossi-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Arrested-Phillips-and-Rossi.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Lehigh Acres man literally took the law into his own hands when he tackled a suspected car burglar targeting his neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>A stunned Trish Madsen couldn&#8217;t believe someone tried to break into her Toyota SUV late Tuesday night, but says she found it even more shocking her neighbor chased down one of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Her crime fighting neighbor did not want to talk to us, but he did tell us he chased after the suspects because he wanted to protect his neighborhood.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Madsen, It makes me feel good knowing he&#8217;s actually watching out for us.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say the suspects were going from house to house looking for open cars doors giving them access to whatever they wanted inside.<\/p>\n<p>One of those cars along Apache Street belonged to Miguel Aponte.<\/p>\n<p>Aponte\u2019s radar detector was stolen and he estimates more than three hundred dollars in damage to his truck.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies arrested Tyler Phillips and Michael Rossi, both 21 years old, in connection with the car thefts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest report, it was Rossi who was tackled and held to the ground until deputies arrived.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lt. Larry King of the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s office, while no one was hurt in this incident, King warns taking the law into your own hands can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man literally took the law into his own hands when he tackled a suspected car burglar targeting his neighborhood. A stunned Trish Madsen couldn&#8217;t believe someone tried&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388"}],"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=16388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}