{"id":211603,"date":"2026-04-27T19:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:44:15","slug":"news-12-bronx-robbery-turns-violent-in-bedford-park-as-suspects-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211603\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Robbery Turns Violent In Bedford Park As Suspects Flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A pair of thieves are on the run after a violent robbery at a business in Bedford Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the incident happened around 3 a.m. April 22 at a business on Villa Avenue. Two suspects entered the location, pulled out a gun, and the situation quickly escalated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, one suspect struck a 27\u2011year\u2011old employee in the head with the gun, while the other hit a 22\u2011year\u2011old employee in the head with a chair. The suspects stole both victims\u2019 cellphones and took $250 from the cash register.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have released photos of the two suspects believed to be responsible for the robbery at 3128 Villa Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD data shows robberies in the area covered by the 52nd Precinct are up nearly 9% so far this year, with at least 124 reported cases. At this time last year, there were 113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of thieves are on the run after a violent robbery at a business in Bedford Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-211603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211603","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=211603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}