{"id":311206,"date":"2026-07-31T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311206\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:56:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-midwood-mosque-thief-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311206\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Midwood Mosque Thief On The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for a man who they say committed a burglary inside a mosque in Midwood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the man entered Makki Masjid Muslim Community Center, located at 1089 Coney Island Ave., just before 11:30 p.m. on June 21.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, he snatched a 69-year-old man&#8217;s cellphone and wallet, containing around $150, from a changing room.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man then exited the mosque and took off running, traveling southbound on Coney Island Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say no one was injured during the theft.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who they say committed a burglary inside a mosque in Midwood. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-311206","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\/311206","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=311206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}