{"id":305780,"date":"2026-07-26T02:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305780\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:29:45","slug":"news-12-westchester-shoplifting-suspect-pepper-sprays-yonkers-officer-during-chase-ends-up-tased-and-handcuffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305780\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Shoplifting Suspect Pepper Sprays Yonkers Officer During Chase Ends Up Tased And Handcuffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A shoplifting suspect is facing multiple charges for pepper spraying an officer during a pursuit Wednesday in Yonkers, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say 46-year-old Fernando Rivera, of The Bronx, stole a piece of jewelry from the TJ Maxx in Cross County.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An officer already in the area for an unrelated call began to chase him as he ran through the parking garage toward Central Park Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Rivera pulled out a can of pepper spray once the officer caught up, sprayed her and then continued running.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The officer deployed her taser despite being sprayed and ended his escape attempt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The stolen jewelry, pepper spray and drug paraphernalia were found following his arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Yonkers Police Department says the officer was treated for minor injuries and has since returned to work.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The charges against Rivera include robbery, assault, resisting arrest, criminal possession of a weapon, petit larceny and criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bodycam footage of the incident was released by the department. In a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2576564176137210\/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZZj1gCLoGm4Dl-IbNfVPgQEKnDSGjtwnEdikgWGlyr7xhQJRF6SfVIfXDEdAL4HibLTZ2rX34ahUloPhMyk7FnD3szZ5uo6d7_KT6lopKRMzFctDXa9HIoT-bmxyGi7cZU-y9jBrYuLpyzFKFPkQes7u0PI93DtW9YEYigOOJfkXtEnaJRZAU0MC3VdaAtm5NmXnvGXg6O6nfygAMFDbIDh&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on Facebook<\/a>, they condemn his actions, saying he \u201crisked it all for a $12 piece of jewelry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cRivera made a decision that turned a shoplifting investigation into something much more serious,\u201d stated the post. \u201cThat&#8217;s not something we see every day, and it&#8217;s certainly not something we&#8217;re going to tolerate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shoplifting suspect is facing multiple charges for pepper spraying an officer during a pursuit Wednesday in Yonkers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-305780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305780","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=305780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}