{"id":316142,"date":"2026-08-07T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316142\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:52:02","slug":"manhattan-man-54-arrested-in-connection-with-walmart-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316142\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man, 54, arrested in connection with Walmart theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan man was arrested Thursday in connection with a shoplifting and theft incident at a Walmart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, Aug. 5, the Riley County Police Department filed a report of theft of property or services around 8:26 p.m. in the 100 block of Bluemont Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walmart was listed as the victim when it was reported that two unknown suspects stole two lawn mowers, one grass trimmer, and a bottle of cranberry juice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total estimated loss in the case was $1,009. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Thursday, RCPD says officers arrested Mark Christopher Chapman, 54, of Manhattan, around 7:40 p.m. in the 2100 block of Fort Riley Boulevard in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chapman was arrested in connection with: <\/p>\n<p> theft of property or services; value less than $1500shoplifting and theft of property or services; less than $1500 with two or more convictions within five yearsshoplifting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chapman was issued no bond and is no longer confined in the Riley County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan man was arrested Thursday in connection with a shoplifting and theft incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[101,75,84,83,9,24,63,2838,3102,3101,9935,797,14599],"class_list":["post-316142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-arrest","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-officers","tag-rcpd","tag-riley-county-police-department","tag-shoplifting","tag-theft","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316142","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=316142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}