{"id":366256,"date":"2026-10-06T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:44:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-wanted-for-stealing-phone-using-credit-card-for-shopping-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366256\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Wanted For Stealing Phone Using Credit Card For Shopping Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for a man who they say stole a cellphone and then went on a shopping spree.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say the suspect approached another man near Stewart Avenue and Meserole Street in East Williamsburg around 2 a.m. on Sept. 4. The suspect then snatched the victim&#8217;s phone and took off.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say a few hours later, the man used the victim&#8217;s credit card, which was linked to the cellphone, to make multiple purchases. Those purchases totaled $22,000 and were made throughout New York City.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who they say stole a cellphone and then went on a shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-366256","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\/366256","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=366256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}