{"id":215017,"date":"2026-04-30T03:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:19:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-trio-on-the-run-after-stealing-mans-bmw-threatening-him-with-hatchet-in-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215017\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Trio On The Run After Stealing Mans Bmw Threatening Him With Hatchet In East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three men are on the run after stealing a man\u2019s BMW and threatening him with a hatchet in East Flatbush, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The trio walked up to the 44-year-old in front of a deli at 787 Albany Ave. just before 1:30 a.m. on April 18.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">All three men struck him in the face before one took out a hatchet.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say one man got into the victim\u2019s 2004 BMW 530i and drove off while the other two got away in a white van.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 44-year-old suffered minor injuries and turned down medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">All three men are around 40 years old and between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are on the run after stealing a man\u2019s BMW and threatening him with a hatchet in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-215017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215017","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=215017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}