{"id":180575,"date":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","slug":"gunman-steals-horse-in-spring-valley-gets-away-on-foot-say-deputies-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180575\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman steals horse in Spring Valley, gets away \u2026 on foot, say deputies \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An armed robbery suspect who allegedly stole a horse in Spring Valley was arrested Monday morning after an hours-long standoff, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to an armed robbery call in the 2300 block of Bancroft Drive at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, where the victim reported that the suspect pointed a firearm at him and had stolen his horse, according to Sgt. David Leonhardi of the San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deputies located the suspect a short distance away from the location. Upon contact, the suspect ran away with the stolen horse,&#8221; Leonhardi said, adding that aerial support assisted deputies by following the suspect as he fled into a nearby residence.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the high-risk nature of the operation, the sheriff&#8217;s Special Enforcement Detail and Crisis Negotiations Team also responded.<\/p>\n<p>At about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the suspect came out of the residence and was arrested. He was identified as 29-year-old Gabriel De La Torre Santana and was booked into the San Diego Central Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen horse was recovered and returned to the owner, Leonhardi said.<\/p>\n<p>De La Torre is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in El Cajon Superior Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed robbery suspect who allegedly stole a horse in Spring Valley was arrested Monday morning after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,8500],"class_list":{"0":"post-180575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego-news","11":"tag-spring-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}