{"id":12101,"date":"2025-10-22T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12101\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:37:10","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-theft-of-truck-from-85-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12101\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with theft of truck from 85-year-old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was arrested early Wednesday in connection with the theft of a pickup truck from an 85-year-old woman in Manhattan, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police filed a report of a vehicle theft around 1:40 a.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Crescent Drive in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 85-year-old woman was listed as the victim in the case when it was reported that a suspect, who was known to her, stole her 2002 Ford F-150 pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Riley County Police are investigating a robbery that occurred early Thursday in downtown...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761147430_72_QMRODRTYBJOTZDAMAFFT62ZOWA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"650\" \/>Riley County Police are investigating a robbery that occurred early Thursday in downtown Manhattan.(WIBW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Less than an hour after the report was filed, Riley County police arrested Michael Brooks, 33, of Manhattan, around 2:07 a.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Humboldt Street in connection with the theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brooks was subsequently booked into the Riley County Jail in connection with criminal deprivation of property; driving while suspended; possession of marijuana; interference with a law enforcement officer; and trafficking contraband into a correctional facility. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brooks remained as of 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Riley County Jail, where officials said he was being held on a $7,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was arrested early Wednesday in connection with the theft of a pickup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9585,75,84,83,9,24,63,9584,3132,797],"class_list":["post-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-85-year-old-woman","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pickup-truck","tag-riley-county","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","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=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}