{"id":201517,"date":"2026-04-18T03:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201517\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:06:35","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201517\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video obtained by News 12 shows police chasing two separate people in Brooklyn and making gun arrests.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say on April 3, just before 3 p.m., officers arrested 18-year-old Jayden Velasquez on 203 South 3 St. in Williamsburg. Velasquez was charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hours later, just before 7:15 p.m., police arrested 24-year-old Jeremiah Marks on Willoughby Avenue in Bed-Stuy. Marks was charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Marks was arrested right near a school. News 12 spoke with a parent who wanted to remain anonymous, picking her child up from school. That mother said the situation was terrifying.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s frightening, you know? Your kids are in school, they&#8217;re supposed to be in a safe space,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says they&#8217;ve made 913 gun arrests citywide so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video obtained by News 12 shows police chasing two separate people in Brooklyn and making gun arrests. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-201517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201517","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=201517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}