{"id":34332,"date":"2015-01-02T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34332"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T16:19:44","slug":"man-dead-after-stealing-van-crashing-into-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/01\/man-dead-after-stealing-van-crashing-into-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dead After Stealing <br>Van, Crashing into House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34333\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34333 \" title=\"Robert Gibbons\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Robert-Gibbons-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Robert-Gibbons-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Robert-Gibbons.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Gibbons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Lehigh Acres man who stole a van is dead after crashing that van into a house.<\/p>\n<p>It all began at approximately\u00a08:30 p.m.\u00a0last night when the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office received a call about a man who was being belligerent and refused to leave the Dollar General store at 701 Gretchen Avenue South in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>While deputies were en route, additional calls were received advising the suspect had possibly stolen a tan Dodge van from the store parking lot.\u00a0 It was later learned that a store customer had kept a spare set of keys in his vehicle, and while he was in the store, the suspect was able to locate the keys and steal the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Two witnesses saw the suspect jump into the van and take off.\u00a0 Believing the van was being stolen, they followed the van until it crashed into a home at 741 Harry Avenue South.\u00a0 The van crashed through the garage, where it struck two vehicles.\u00a0 Fortunately no one inside the residence was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle died as a result of\u00a0injuries suffered.\u00a0 He has been identified as Robert Gibbons, 46, of 1110 Harry Avenue South, Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man who stole a van is dead after crashing that van into a house. It all began at approximately\u00a08:30 p.m.\u00a0last night when the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34333,"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\/34332"}],"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=34332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}