{"id":233903,"date":"2026-04-16T07:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233903\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:04:17","slug":"suspect-in-30000-mall-robbery-arrested-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233903\/","title":{"rendered":"suspect in $30,000 mall robbery arrested in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOLYOKE, MA (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; A man in Florida is awaiting extradition to Massachusetts, accused of a robbery at the Holyoke Mall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holyoke Police said 48-year-old Ricardo Cotto was arrested in Volusia County, FL last month after being charged with robbery with a firearm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In January, Cotto allegedly asked to look at several pieces of jewelry at a store in the mall before taking off with $30,000 worth of items. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cotto was identified as a suspect and a warrant for his arrest was issued. Once his case is complete in Florida, he will be returned to Massachusetts to face charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Western Mass News (WGGB\/WSHM). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLYOKE, MA (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; A man in Florida is awaiting extradition to Massachusetts, accused of a robbery at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,104451,9058,104452,14040],"class_list":["post-233903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-holyoke-mall","tag-jewelry","tag-ricardo-cotto","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233903","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=233903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}