{"id":200533,"date":"2026-04-17T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:02:41","slug":"nypd-officer-on-horseback-chases-down-alleged-purse-thief-through-manhattan-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200533\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer on horseback chases down alleged purse thief through Manhattan streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, April 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/781455a7e5c9adab0f7ab768fb8ffee7.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police officer on horseback chased an alleged purse thief through the streets of Manhattan, a video shared by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">New York City<\/a> Police Department (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nypd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NYPD;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">NYPD<\/a>) on Thursday (16 April) shows.<\/p>\n<p>The chase continued along the sidewalks and through the streets as the officer shouted, \u201cStop running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man was finally apprehended with the help of a witness, and the purse was recovered, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m putting cuffs on you. You&#8217;re being detained,\u201d the officer said as he apprehended the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM UTC A police officer on horseback chased an alleged purse thief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,2215,63,103,23394],"class_list":["post-200533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200533","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=200533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}