{"id":118850,"date":"2026-01-15T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:27:15","slug":"second-arrest-made-in-cvs-armed-robbery-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118850\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Arrest Made In CVS Armed Robbery: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The second suspect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/stpete\/masked-robbers-pepper-sprayed-cvs-employees-st-pete-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">robbery of the CVS pharmacy<\/a> at 301 Third Street South earlier this month was arrested Tuesday, St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Antoine Jones, 26, was charged with armed robbery. <\/p>\n<p>His accomplice, Joseph Lee-Brown, 27, was arrested in Hillsborough County on Jan. 6 and also charged with armed robbery, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The two suspects, later identified as Jones and Lee-Brown, entered the CVS wearing face masks just before midnight on Jan. 5. <\/p>\n<p>Jones went behind the store counter and shoved a sales clerk, police said. At the same time, Lee-Brown began spraying store employees in the face with pepper spray. <\/p>\n<p>The robbers ran out of the store carrying more than $1,000 in store merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>A string of similar store robberies has been reported in the region, including three in St. Petersburg since Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The second suspect in the robbery of the CVS pharmacy at 301 Third Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-118850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118850","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=118850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}