{"id":144119,"date":"2026-02-05T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:48:11","slug":"2nd-suspect-at-large-after-st-pete-jewelry-store-heist-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144119\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd suspect at-large after St. Pete jewelry store heist: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETE \u2014 Police announced Wednesday they are looking for a second suspect tied to a St. Petersburg jewelry store heist.<\/p>\n

St. Pete Police Department (SPPD) said detectives arrested Savon Hunter for the burglary of a local jewelry store after Hunter and another suspect used a sledgehammer to break into the back door of the Old Northeast Jewelers at 1131 4th Street N just after 2 a.m. on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n

SPPD said the store was closed at the time.<\/p>\n

The suspects stole about $45,000 in jewelry and a gun, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n

Detectives found Hunter and arrested him on Feb. 4. <\/p>\n

He faces numerous charges, including armed burglary, dealing in stolen property, false verification of ownership, possession of a controlled substance (crack cocaine), and driving with a suspended license with knowledge.<\/p>\n

A second suspect is still at large.<\/p>\n

Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD with your your tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

How journalists battle the rise of AI fake news<\/p>\n

As News Literacy Week kicks off in partnership with Scripps News, Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska sat down with fact-checkers at PolitiFact to learn how they combat misinformation<\/a> in the age of AI.<\/p>\n

AI is making fake news harder to spot: How journalists at PolitiFact debunk it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE \u2014 Police announced Wednesday they are looking for a second suspect tied to a St. Petersburg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,4987,69882,596,69883,202,204,203,199,201,200,18405,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-144119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-jewelry-heist","10":"tag-old-northeast-jewelers","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-savon-hunter","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-st-petersburg-police","20":"tag-tampa-bay-28","21":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","22":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144119","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=144119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}