{"id":349430,"date":"2026-09-17T17:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349430\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:36:57","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-arrest-made-in-brighton-beach-attack-that-left-90-year-old-woman-lying-on-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349430\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Arrest Made In Brighton Beach Attack That Left 90 Year Old Woman Lying On Sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man is facing felony assault charges for a brutal attack against a 90-year-old woman in Brighton Beach, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Jacob Thomas, 24, stands accused of throwing a large furniture item containing trash at the victim near Brighton Beach Avenue on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The random assault was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/caught-on-camera-90-year-old-woman-attacked-by-stranger-in-brighton-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caught on camera<\/a>. The footage shows the woman lying on the sidewalk as the suspect flees on foot. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say she was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals\/Coney Island in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect remained at large for over two weeks following the attack. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released an image of Thomas in an effort to locate him on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The search came to an end when officers arrested him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing felony assault charges for a brutal attack against a 90-year-old woman in Brighton Beach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-349430","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\/349430","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=349430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}