{"id":15571,"date":"2025-10-22T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15571\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:31:18","slug":"port-st-lucies-police-k9-unit-catches-burglar-suspect-within-20-minutes-of-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15571\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie&#8217;s Police K9 Unit catches burglar suspect within 20 minutes of home invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) arrested a man for burglary in under 20 minutes with the assistance of their K9 Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The department stated that just after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, several PSLPD units were deployed to the 200 block of SE Village Drive.<\/p>\n<p>PSLPD says the reporting party returned home from work to find an unknown male, later identified as Arkansas-native Jarred Seymour, in the home. The homeowner confronted Seymour, who convinced him it was in his best interest to leave, per police. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when the gentleman, the intruder, comes out from the bedroom and I ask him, I said what are you doing? And he says I live here,&#8221; said homeowner Linda Snow. &#8220;I said, no I live here. He says I live here and I said no I need for you to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner immediately called 911 and provided a description, direction of travel, and video surveillance of Seymour on the property.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when road patrol, drone operators, and K9 Officer Gibbons and his \u2018maligator\u2019 K9 Ronin were called in.<\/p>\n<p>With the descriptive information and closing the gap with very little time delay, K9 Ronin was hot on the suspect&#8217;s track, locating him just 20 minutes after his paws were on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour was arrested and transported to St. Lucie County Jail for counts of burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day&#8217;s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS12NewsWPEC\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can&#8217;t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) arrested a man for burglary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-15571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","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=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}