{"id":292996,"date":"2026-07-11T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:11:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-wanted-for-robbing-2-elderly-women-in-separate-incidents-in-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292996\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Wanted For Robbing 2 Elderly Women In Separate Incidents In East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An investigation is underway after police say the same person robbed two elderly women in separate incidents over several days in East Flatbush.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The first incident happened on July 4. Police say the suspect was riding a scooter along Winthrop and East 54th streets in East Flatbush when they allegedly snatched a 79-year-old woman\u2019s purse from her before taking off.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the same suspect struck again on July 7. They say the suspect pushed an 86-year-old woman to the ground in front of 727 Utica Ave., located less than a half mile away from the first crime scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect then stole $10 from her handbag before running off. The woman was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking anyone who recognizes the suspect to call them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after police say the same person robbed two elderly women in separate incidents over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-292996","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\/292996","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=292996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}