{"id":365408,"date":"2025-12-24T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:45:13","slug":"2-teens-arrested-after-using-replica-gun-during-facebook-marketplace-robbery-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365408\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens arrested after using replica gun during Facebook Marketplace robbery &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver police have arrested two young teens in connection with an armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said the two boys arranged to meet someone selling a phone on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/facebook-marketplace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Marketplace<\/a> in a back lane near King Edward Avenue and Fraser Street at 8:30 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was selling an iPhone and had set up the meeting with someone he thought was the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765813388_386_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, police say he encountered two teens, and one of them pulled a very real-looking replica gun on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the police we just urge people to take those necessary precautions to make sure that when you\u2019re doing any sort of transaction with someone you don\u2019t know do it in a safe place,\u201d Const. Darren Wong with the Vancouver Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11587936\/nicki-minaj-erika-kirk-turning-point-usa-amfest-donald-trump-vance\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766558713_459_GettyImages-2252444905.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNicki Minaj praises \u2018handsome\u2019 Donald Trump at Turning Point USA event\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11588892\/donald-trump-greenland-national-security\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766558713_753_CP175516199.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDonald Trump says U.S. \u2018has to have\u2019 Greenland for \u2018national security\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a safe exchange site here at 2120 Cambie St. at our VPD detachment right in the front door, that\u2019s well lit, it\u2019s got video surveillance cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The victim in this case held one of the teens while calling 911 and both suspects were then arrested by Vancouver police.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver police have arrested two young teens in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,156662,43,44,41,39,42,40,12961],"class_list":{"0":"post-365408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-facebook-marketplace","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-vancouver-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}