{"id":389645,"date":"2026-09-03T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389645\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:30:50","slug":"teen-suspect-arrested-within-24-hours-in-fort-pierce-armed-robbery-probe-fppd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389645\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen suspect arrested within 24 hours in Fort Pierce armed robbery probe, FPPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 16-year-old is accused of setting up an armed robbery in Fort Pierce, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoffortpierce.com\/1186\/Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FPPD says that on Wednesday, officers responded to an armed robbery in which the victim arranged an online meetup and was confronted by three males.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FPPD, one suspect displayed an AR-15-style rifle and stole the victim\u2019s iPhone. The other suspects stole a purse and other personal belongings from the victim\u2019s grandmother\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/buying-a-gun-for-someone-else-atf-warns-that-favor-could-cost-15-years-250000-dollars-dont-lie-for-the-other-guy-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buying a gun for someone else? ATF warns that &#8216;favor&#8217; could cost 15 years, $250K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, detectives quickly identified a 16-year-old male as one of the suspects involved in the robbery. Within 24 hours of the crime, detectives located and arrested the 16-year-old, according to FPPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 16-year-old is accused of setting up an armed robbery in Fort Pierce,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-389645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389645","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=389645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}