{"id":205958,"date":"2026-04-22T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:43:02","slug":"news-12-bronx-5-bronx-residents-busted-in-undercover-nj-operation-targeting-dirt-bike-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205958\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 5 Bronx Residents Busted In Undercover Nj Operation Targeting Dirt Bike Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Five people from The Bronx were arrested during an undercover operation targeting dirt bike thieves this week in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Monroe Township Police Department says they were investigating a pattern of thefts, attempted burglaries and related crimes both locally and in surrounding jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials issued a decoy ad offering a bike for sale on social media. Police say the ad was meant to attract potential thieves.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers monitoring the scene say they caught five individuals attempting to break in and steal the dirt bike.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the group is facing charges for burglary, criminal mischief, criminal trespass and possession of burglary tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people from The Bronx were arrested during an undercover operation targeting dirt bike thieves this week in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-205958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205958","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=205958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}