{"id":275457,"date":"2026-06-23T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:17:58","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-arrested-in-connection-to-deadly-hit-and-run-in-east-williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275457\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Arrested In Connection To Deadly Hit And Run In East Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a man linked to a deadly hit-and-run in East Williamsburg has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, 35-year-old Gregory Ventura was arrested and is now facing several charges, including criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old Joshua Germain was walking along Vandervoort Avenue and Maspeth Avenue back on Feb. 15 around 12:15 a.m. Police say that&#8217;s when Ventura struck Germain with a car and took off from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on when Ventura will appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man linked to a deadly hit-and-run in East Williamsburg has been arrested. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-275457","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\/275457","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=275457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}