{"id":263819,"date":"2026-06-11T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263819\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:26:45","slug":"manhattan-man-18-fired-a-dozen-shots-from-backseat-on-joyride-with-friends-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263819\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Man, 18, Fired A Dozen Shots From Backseat On Joyride With Friends: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valera does not have a FOID card or Illinois Concealed Carry License, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The gun and shell casings were inventoried as evidence and will be sent to the Illinois State Police Forensic Laboratory for further examination and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Valera was charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>With Valera reportedly posing no threat to anyone or the community, he was released on his own recognizance into his mother&#8217;s care and issued a pretrial notice to appear.<\/p>\n<p>He is due in court July 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valera does not have a FOID card or Illinois Concealed Carry License, according to police. The gun and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-263819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263819","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=263819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}