{"id":36967,"date":"2015-09-14T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36967"},"modified":"2015-09-14T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:24:29","slug":"armed-robbery-thwarted-by-pistol-packing-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/09\/armed-robbery-thwarted-by-pistol-packing-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robbery Thwarted <br>By Pistol Packing Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36968\" title=\"Discount\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Discount.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"289\" \/>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying and tracking down a man who tried to hold up a Lehigh Acres store last night, but was run off when an employee pulled out his own gun and chased the suspect away.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after\u00a06 p.m.\u00a0on Sunday, Sept. 13, an unknown white or Hispanic male entered the Grocery Discount Stores, located at\u00a05580 Lee Boulevard, and pointed a two-toned semi-automatic handgun at a store employee, demanding all the cash in the store.\u00a0 In fear of his life, the employee, who was also armed, drew his gun on the suspect in order to defend himself.\u00a0 The employee proceeded to chase the man out of the store, who fled on foot with another subject, headed southbound on\u00a0Lee Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The suspect is described as between 20-26 years of age, 5\u20196\u201d, with a heavy build.\u00a0 At the time of the robbery, he was wearing a black hooded Florida Marlins sweatshirt, black shorts, white shoes, black gloves and a white mask which concealed his entire face.\u00a0 The unknown male should be considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on 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\/\" 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 and tracking down a man who tried to hold up a Lehigh Acres store last night, but was run off&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36968,"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\/36967"}],"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=36967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}