{"id":118169,"date":"2026-01-14T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:33:10","slug":"2-arrested-for-robbery-at-cvs-in-st-petersburg-on-jan-5-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118169\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested for robbery at CVS in St. Petersburg on Jan. 5: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETE., Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said both suspects who are alleged to have robbed a CVS and pepper-sprayed a clerk earlier this month have been arrested.<\/p>\n

SPPD said Antone Jones, 26, was arrested on Jan. 13 and charged with armed robbery.<\/p>\n

His accomplice, Joseph Lee-Brown, 27, was arrested on Jan. 6 in Hillsborough County and charged with armed robbery.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 5<\/a>, officers said the suspects entered the CVS store at 301 Third Street South at about 11:45 p.m. One robber forced their way behind the counter and shoved a clerk, while the other sprayed the clerk in the face with “a substance believed to be pepper spray.”<\/p>\n

\"Pepper<\/p>\n

SPPD<\/p>\n

\"Pepper<\/p>\n

SPPD<\/p>\n

SPPD said a string of robberies similar to this has been reported across the state since Dec. 1.<\/p>\n

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Family mourns Brandon High School student killed by train<\/p>\n

Jewell McMillan, Jamar’s mother, tells Tampa Bay 28 reporter Annette Gutierrez she didn’t realize Wednesday night would be the last time she’d see her son alive<\/p>\n

‘I’m really heartbroken’: Family mourns Brandon High School student killed by train<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE., Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said both suspects who are alleged to have robbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,55419,55420,55421,596,55422,202,204,203,199,201,200,3670,208],"class_list":["post-118169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-cvs-heist","tag-masked-robbers","tag-pepper-spray","tag-pinellas-county","tag-robbers","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}