{"id":316444,"date":"2026-08-08T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:00:24","slug":"manhattan-man-arrested-in-connection-with-walmart-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316444\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man arrested in connection with Walmart theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"907\">A Manhattan man has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Walmart earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"909\" data-end=\"1060\">According to the Riley County Police Department, Mark Christopher Chapman, 54, was arrested Thursday evening in the 2100 block of Fort Riley Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1255\">The arrest stems from Wednesday\u2019s theft at the Walmart in the 100 block of Bluemont Avenue, where police say two suspects stole two lawn mowers, a grass trimmer and a bottle of cranberry juice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1257\" data-end=\"1483\">Chapman was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and theft of property or services valued at less than $1,500, along with a second count alleging theft with two or more prior shoplifting convictions within the past five years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1558\">He was issued no bond and is no longer confined in the Riley County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $1,000 worth of merchandise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-316444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316444","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=316444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}