{"id":216498,"date":"2026-05-01T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:58:09","slug":"brooklyn-businesses-targeted-in-knifepoint-robbery-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216498\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Businesses Targeted in Knifepoint Robbery Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the man stuck to a plan &#8211; demanding money before going behind the counter and holding an employee at knifepoint. The incidents happened in mid-April. The largest amount stolen was around $6,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities are searching for the man they say is responsible for a knifepoint robbery spree targeting businesses in Brooklyn. Police say the man stuck to a plan &#8211; demanding money before going behind the counter and holding an employee at knifepoint. The incidents happened in mid-April. The largest amount stolen was around $6,000. According to authorities, the man first struck a smoke shop in Williamsburg. <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/brooklyn-businesses-targeted-in-knifepoint-robbery-spree\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More on this from News 12 Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the man stuck to a plan &#8211; demanding money before going behind the counter and holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216498","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\/216498","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=216498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}