{"id":26568,"date":"2013-09-25T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:39:29","slug":"id-sought-for-bully-who-beat-up-senior-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/09\/id-sought-for-bully-who-beat-up-senior-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Sought For Bully <br>Who Beat Up Senior Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26606\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-26606\" title=\"wood\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wood-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a055-year-old Kenneth Wood was arrested just hours after several Crime Stoppers tips were received identifying Wood as the attacker on surveillance video.<br \/>\nWood has two prior arrests in Lee County \u2013 both for battery charges.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfORvHY7rHo?list=UUn76XuZvs8kdF5VlsnX6Ebw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers<\/strong>is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a 6\u20190\u201d bully who threw a senior citizen to the ground and assaulted him over a dispute at a North Fort Myers laundromat.In the early morning hours of September 9, the 75 year old victim and his wife were minding their own business, washing clothes at the Coin Laundry, located at 50 Pine Island Road, North Fort Myers. \u00a0An unknown white male then approached the couple, and instructed them not to use a dryer that he wanted to use later, stating that it was \u201chis\u201d dryer.\u00a0 The victim exchanged words with the suspect, who proceeded to forcefully push the senior citizen to the ground, and kick him several times.\u00a0 When the victim attempted to call 9-1-1, the suspect took the man\u2019s phone and smashed it onto the ground before leaving on foot.\u00a0 The victim was able to seek help at a neighboring business for injuries sustained in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are now trying to identify the man who will be facing felony charges of battery on a person age 65 or older.\u00a0 The suspect is described as 6\u20190\u201d and approximately 220 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the identity and whereabouts of the suspect 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 href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\"> www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: \u00a055-year-old Kenneth Wood was arrested just hours after several Crime Stoppers tips were received identifying Wood as the attacker on surveillance video. Wood has two prior arrests in Lee&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\/26568"}],"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=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}