{"id":318336,"date":"2026-06-24T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:50:07","slug":"port-st-lucie-man-accused-of-threatening-co-worker-with-rifle-at-wawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318336\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie man accused of threatening co-worker with rifle at Wawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Port St. Lucie man is facing multiple charges after police say he threatened a co-worker with an AR-style rifle during a dispute over money.Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25According to Port St. Lucie police, the incident happened at a Wawa on Becker Road. Investigators said 40-year-old Jeremy Vigil and the victim worked together and met at the store to exchange money from a job they had completed.Police said Vigil became upset over the amount of money he received. During the argument, investigators say Vigil pulled out an AR-style rifle, pointed it at the victim and threatened to kill him.Authorities said Vigil left the area before officers arrived.Police later arrested Vigil at his home. Video released by the department shows officers taking him into custody.Vigil is now facing multiple charges related to the incident. The investigation remains ongoing.Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Port St. Lucie man is facing multiple charges after police say he threatened a co-worker with an AR-style rifle during a dispute over money.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Port St. Lucie police, the incident happened at a Wawa on Becker Road. Investigators said 40-year-old Jeremy Vigil and the victim worked together and met at the store to exchange money from a job they had completed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Vigil became upset over the amount of money he received. During the argument, investigators say Vigil pulled out an AR-style rifle, pointed it at the victim and threatened to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Vigil left the area before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Police later arrested Vigil at his home. Video released by the department shows officers taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Vigil is now facing multiple charges related to the incident. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Port St. Lucie man is facing multiple charges after police say he threatened a co-worker with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5070,39456,658,7441,2159,7941,1224,132,171,173,2244,172,33031,6411,4325,19215,221,189],"class_list":["post-318336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-becker-road","tag-co-worker","tag-incident","tag-investigator","tag-money","tag-multiple-charge","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-man","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-rifle","tag-victim","tag-vigil","tag-wawa","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318336","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=318336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}