{"id":201007,"date":"2026-04-17T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:20:58","slug":"nypd-officer-on-horseback-chases-down-alleged-purse-thief-through-manhattan-streets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201007\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer on horseback chases down alleged purse thief through Manhattan streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York City&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NYPD&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NYPD<\/a>) on Thursday (16 April) shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chase continued along the sidewalks and through the streets as the officer shouted, \u201cStop running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was finally apprehended with the help of a witness, and the purse was recovered, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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":"A police officer on horseback chased an alleged purse thief through the streets of Manhattan, a video shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201008,"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-201007","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\/201007","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=201007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}