{"id":21923,"date":"2013-04-05T19:37:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21923"},"modified":"2013-04-05T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T23:37:41","slug":"man-busted-after-helping-cohort-steal-from-his-employer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/04\/man-busted-after-helping-cohort-steal-from-his-employer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Man busted After Helping Cohort Steal From His Employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A Lehigh Acres man found himself behind bars after showing more loyalty to a friend than his boss, by assisting in the theft of an Xbox gaming system from his employer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Carl-Harper1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21925\" title=\"Carl Harper\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Carl-Harper1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Carl Harper, DOB 1\/22\/88, was jailed on charges of grand theft on March 26<sup>th<\/sup> after store managers at the Wal Mart on Lee Boulevard, Lehigh Acres, caught him on surveillance video helping an unknown white male conceal an Xbox gaming system.\u00a0 While Harper paid the price for his role in the escapade, in the form of a felony grand theft charge, his partner in crime has yet to be identified and arrested.\u00a0 Security footage from the store captured images of the male walking into the store \u2013 and now Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers hopes someone will be able to put a name and location with the face.\u00a0 The suspect being sought was wearing a red cap and left the store with the $300 device hidden underneath an oversized shirt \u2013 bypassing all registers and simply walking away with the stolen property \u2013 thanks to a little help from Harper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0Anyone with information on the identify of the white male in the red cap attached to this release is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at <a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">For additional information, contact Trish Routte, Crime Stoppers Coordinator, at <a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/webmail.curtispmiddleton.com\/3rdparty\/squirrelmail\/images\/blank.png\" target=\"_blank\">239-477-1407<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man found himself behind bars after showing more loyalty to a friend than his boss, by assisting in the theft of an Xbox gaming system from his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923"}],"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=21923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}