{"id":307696,"date":"2026-07-28T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307696\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:53:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-pepper-sprays-officer-after-12-shoplifting-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307696\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Pepper Sprays Officer After 12 Shoplifting Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bronx man pepper sprays officer after $12 shoplifting attempt<\/p>\n<p>A Bronx man is accused of turning a $12 shoplifting  attempt into a felony chase.<\/p>\n<p>Yonkers police posted a video on Facebook saying 46-year-old Fernando Rivera stole a piece of jewelry from the TJ Maxx store at Cross County, then took off running when he was confronted.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say he pepper sprayed an officer during the chase, but the officer fought through it, deployed her taser, and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered the stolen jewelry, the pepper spray and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera now faces a long list of charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx man pepper sprays officer after $12 shoplifting attempt A Bronx man is accused of turning a $12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-307696","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\/307696","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=307696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}