{"id":36494,"date":"2015-07-31T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36494"},"modified":"2015-07-31T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:31:30","slug":"suspect-sought-in-attempted-lehigh-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/07\/suspect-sought-in-attempted-lehigh-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Sought In <br>Attempted Lehigh Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-36495\" title=\"15-317644 Suspect 1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/15-317644-Suspect-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/15-317644-Suspect-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/15-317644-Suspect-1.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying an unknown white male who tried to rob a Lehigh Acres Citgo gas station at gunpoint Wednesday\u00a0night.<\/p>\n<p>A store employee told detectives that around\u00a09:30 p.m.\u00a0on Wednesday, July 29, a white male driving a white extended dually truck pulled up to the Citgo, located at233 Joel Boulevard.\u00a0 <!--more-->The unknown male was wearing a mask, black gloves and brandished a black firearm.\u00a0 In fear for his life, the store\u2019s employee locked the front door to prevent the suspect from entering the business.\u00a0 While trying to make entry, the suspect continued to yell at the employee, pointing the gun at him through the window, and demanding that he open the door.\u00a0 The suspect eventually retreated to his truck, which is described as having a tank in the bed of the truck, with two hoses on the passenger side and what appears to be a siphoning handle on the driver\u2019s side rear cabin.<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying an unknown white male who tried to rob a Lehigh Acres Citgo gas station at gunpoint Wednesday\u00a0night. A store employee&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36495,"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\/36494"}],"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=36494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}