{"id":791128,"date":"2026-10-03T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791128\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:46:10","slug":"masked-man-threatened-shop-worker-with-knife-in-attempted-robbery-in-dumfries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791128\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked man threatened shop worker with knife in attempted robbery in Dumfries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A masked man threatened a shop worker with a knife in an attempted robbery in Dumfries. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect entered the store on New Abbey Road around 7.35am on Saturday morning and threatened the worker with the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>He demanded access to the till, but then made off from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was wearing a blue top with the hood up, a black face covering, a black baseball cap and black trousers at the time of the attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Police said enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information or dash-cam footage which could help is urged to call Police Scotland on 101 quoting reference CR\/0445902\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be sent anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791067570_257_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masked man threatened a shop worker with a knife in an attempted robbery in Dumfries. The suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791128","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\/791128","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=791128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}