{"id":229564,"date":"2026-05-13T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:11:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-duo-wanted-for-snatching-purse-containing-5000-inside-joes-pizzeria-in-cypress-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229564\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Duo Wanted For Snatching Purse Containing 5000 Inside Joes Pizzeria In Cypress Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for two men who they say snatched a 68-year-old woman&#8217;s purse containing $5,000 inside Joe&#8217;s Pizzeria in Cypress Hills.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the woman walked into 1121 Liberty Ave. just before 12:30 p.m. on May 4, moments after withdrawing the cash from a nearby bank. Inside the shop, she briefly handed her purse to a 68-year-old man whom she knew.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Moments later, the duo entered the shop and started an argument with the man before forcibly snatching the woman&#8217;s purse from his hands, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The men took off running northbound toward Lincoln Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say one man was last seen wearing all black, carrying a red Target shopping bag, while the other wore a black hat, blue surgical facemask, light blue jeans, black sneakers and a black jacket.<\/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":"Police are searching for two men who they say snatched a 68-year-old woman&#8217;s purse containing $5,000 inside Joe&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-229564","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\/229564","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=229564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}