{"id":588219,"date":"2026-05-17T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588219\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:27:11","slug":"arrest-over-knifepoint-car-robbery-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588219\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest over &#8216;knifepoint&#8217; car robbery in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been arrested after a woman had her car stolen at knifepoint in Edinburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old driver had parked her white Peugeot 208 behind the Scotmid store at Morvenside Close in Wester Hailes when the robbery took place on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told police she was approached by a man who threatened her with a knife,  demanded her keys, then drove away with another man in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland said a 47-year-old man had been arrested and charged in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a woman had her car stolen at knifepoint in Edinburgh. The 22-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}