{"id":200565,"date":"2026-04-17T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:04:37","slug":"nypd-officer-on-horseback-chases-down-purse-snatcher-through-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200565\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Officer on Horseback Chases Down Purse Snatcher Through Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NYPD officer on horseback was captured on video chasing down a suspected purse snatcher on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. According to police, the incident began when a suspect grabbed a purse near West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue and tried to flee on foot. The mounted officer quickly pursued the suspect through busy streets and sidewalks, navigating traffic and pedestrians during the chase. <\/p>\n<p>The officer eventually caught up to the suspect and made an arrest, recovering the stolen purse. The dramatic pursuit, which was caught on camera, quickly gained attention for the unusual sight of a police officer on horseback chasing a suspect through a crowded city environment.<\/p>\n<p>See it all go down from the point of the view of the officer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer on horseback was captured on video chasing down a suspected purse snatcher on the Upper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[79605,75,84,83,9,24,63,13368],"class_list":{"0":"post-200565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-iheartradio-spotlight","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200565","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=200565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}