{"id":38204,"date":"2015-12-30T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38204"},"modified":"2015-12-30T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:20:24","slug":"hover-board-targeted-in-lehigh-acres-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/12\/hover-board-targeted-in-lehigh-acres-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hover Board Targeted<br> In Lehigh Acres Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38205\" title=\"Hooverboard\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hooverboard-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hooverboard-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hooverboard.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A 13-year-old Lehigh Acres boy was robbed at gunpoint &#8212; for his hover board.<\/p>\n<p>It happened Monday night in the parking lot of a Lehigh Acres shopping center on Gretchen Avenue South near Leonard Boulevard South.<\/p>\n<p>The very popular holiday gift is becoming a target for thieves in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Antwoine Thomas&#8217; grandmother and brother said they were shocked to hear he was robbed of his pricey Christmas gift. His grandmother said she feels sick knowing they threatened him with a gun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On Monday night, Antwoine Thomas and three of his cousins were heading to a store in Lehigh Acres. He took his hoverboard, but it wasn&#8217;t long before he was robbed at gunpoint for it at Gunnery Road Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Antwoine said he was approached by two black males wearing hoodies. One pointed a gun at him while the other pushed him off the board, grabbed it, and ran.<\/p>\n<p>Antwoine&#8217;s grandmother has a message for the thieves:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pick on someone your own size. Stop picking on little kids, taking they stuff. Go get you a job, work for what you need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said they say the two hooded robbers got away in a reddish-colored Nissan.\u00a0The stolen hover board is valued at $400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old Lehigh Acres boy was robbed at gunpoint &#8212; for his hover board. It happened Monday night in the parking lot of a Lehigh Acres shopping center on Gretchen&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38205,"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\/38204"}],"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=38204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}