{"id":200969,"date":"2026-04-17T17:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:46:41","slug":"mounted-new-york-police-officer-and-his-horse-corner-suspected-purse-snatcher-in-manhattan-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200969\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounted New York police officer and his horse corner suspected purse snatcher in Manhattan | National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York City police officer on horseback nabbed a suspected purse snatcher after chasing her through the streets of Manhattan at full gallop \u2014 a wild scene evoking the clip-clopping past of a city where lights, sirens and squad cars are the norm.<\/p>\n<p>The late Wednesday morning pursuit began when the victim reported the theft. The officer \u2014 whose name has not been released \u2014 and his horse quickly took up the chase that was captured on his bodycam and also by a television news crew that happened to be in the area for an unrelated story.<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 @77:46C C6A62E65=J D4C62&gt;65 2E E96 DFDA64E E@ DE@A CF??:?8[ 3FE D96 C67FD65 H9:=6 56?J:?8 D96 925 E2&lt;6? E96 AFCD6] %96 3C:67 9@@7 492D6 H6?E 2=@?8 D:56H2=2? H2D DE@AA65 3J 2 A656DEC:2? 2?5 E96? 56E2:?65 3J E96 @77:46C]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 H@&gt;2? H2D 492C865 H:E9 =2C46?J 2?5 AC@G:5:?8 72=D6 :?7@C&gt;2E:@?] pFE9@C:E:6D D2:5 D96 925 366? 4@?G:4E65 @7 &gt;FC56C \ud83d\ude15 E96 pAC:= a___ 72E2= D9@@E:?8 @7 2 423 5C:G6C 2?5 925 D6CG65 E:&gt;6 \ud83d\ude15 AC:D@? 367@C6 36:?8 C6=62D65] $96 \ud83d\ude00 4FCC6?E=J @? =:76E:&gt;6 A2C@=6]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm}@ :?;FC:6D H6C6 C6A@CE65 \ud83d\ude15 E96 492D6]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York City police officer on horseback nabbed a suspected purse snatcher after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,11260,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-200969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-national_news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200969","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=200969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}