{"id":118717,"date":"2026-01-31T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118717\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:40:08","slug":"veteran-police-officer-arrested-for-stealing-275-trinket-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118717\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran police officer arrested for stealing $275 trinket: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran NYPD lieutenant has been arrested for allegedly swiping a $275 pendant from a designer bag at a high-end yoga apparel store in Manhattan, police and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. John Ruis <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/19\/us-news\/shoplifting-down-13-in-nyc-and-across-the-state-after-retail-theft-crackdown-hochul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly took an \u201cintention crystal\u201d<\/a> from an Alo Yoga store in Manhattan, a police source said. The alleged theft was caught on video reviewed by a manager, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t make this s\u2013t up,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.85253906;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38346873\" width=\"503\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3500-bag-sale-manager-observed-120105862.jpg\" alt=\"YPD Lieutenant John Ruis in a blue jacket.\" class=\"wp-image-38346873\"  \/>Lt. John Ruis was arrested for allegedly stealing a pendant from a yoga bag at an Alo store in NYC, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Ruis, 61, who was working a side gig as a security guad at the store, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/19\/us-news\/regular-cops-cuff-nyc-shoplifter-while-special-quality-of-life-team-ignores-nearby-strung-out-junkies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been with the NYPD\u2019s Crime Prevention <\/a>Division since last year and was arrested Friday and charged with petit larceny, official misconduct and criminal possession of stolen property, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s suspended from duty without pay, according to an internal NYPD document.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the store and date of the crime weren\u2019t available because the alleged incident is part of an ongoing Internal Affairs Bureau investigation, a police spokesman said<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38346872\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-americans-planning-spend-holiday-120106932.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrians, including holiday shoppers carrying Steve Madden bags, walk past an Alo store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-38346872\"  \/>He allegedly stole a $275 crystal from a designer bag, police sources said. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ruis didn\u2019t respond to a telephone message. <\/p>\n<p>Ruis, who joined the Force in 1995, made $232,000 last year, publicly available records show.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked in the Bronx\u2019s 49th Precinct, Bronx Court Section and the 104th Precinct during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veteran NYPD lieutenant has been arrested for allegedly swiping a $275 pendant from a designer bag at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,9935,58],"class_list":["post-118717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-shoplifting","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}