{"id":40154,"date":"2016-06-09T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40154"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:57:08","slug":"tips-sought-in-weekend-family-dollar-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/06\/tips-sought-in-weekend-family-dollar-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips Sought In Weekend Family Dollar Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying an unknown black male who robbed a North Fort Myers Family Dollar store last Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40155\" title=\"family-dollar-logo_final\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/family-dollar-logo_final-300x42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/family-dollar-logo_final-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/family-dollar-logo_final-1024x145.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/family-dollar-logo_final.png 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Just after\u00a010 p.m.\u00a0on Saturday, June 4, two store employees were counting the register tills and the deposit for the night at the Family Dollar, located at 50 Pine Island Road.\u00a0 As they were finishing, a black male approached the women from behind and demanded they give him all the money from the safe.\u00a0 In fear for her life, one of the employees grabbed a store bag and placed the cash inside.\u00a0 After handing over the bag, the suspect told the two employees to get on the ground and count to 100.\u00a0 He then ran through the store, activating a door alarm at the rear of the store, headed in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a black male, wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans.\u00a0 Anyone with information on the identity of the robber 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\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1465572934411000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEjqia44eEj3RWPRAvcSnMRoAw0FQ\">www.swflcrimestoppers.or<\/a>g\u00a0or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public&#8217;s help identifying an unknown black male who robbed a North Fort Myers Family Dollar store last Saturday night. Just after\u00a010 p.m.\u00a0on&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\/40154"}],"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=40154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}