{"id":366288,"date":"2026-10-06T22:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366288\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:20:31","slug":"news-12-bronx-dhs-2-men-wanted-in-stabbing-of-off-duty-nypd-detective-are-in-us-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366288\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Dhs 2 Men Wanted In Stabbing Of Off Duty Nypd Detective Are In Us Illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD has identified two men wanted in connection with the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/off-duty-nypd-officer-stabbed-during-robbery-in-norwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing and robbery of off-duty NYPD Detective<\/a> Jose Mercedes in Norwood on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say 25-year-old D\u2019Angelo Caraballo and 24-year-old Sneider Mejia are <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\" https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-releases-photos-of-men-wanted-in-stabbing-robbery-of-off-duty-detective-in-norwood\">wanted on charges of attempted murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the men approached Mercedes on a motorized bike near Rochambeau Avenue and East 208th Street Friday afternoon, stabbed and slashed him multiple times and stole a chain from his neck before fleeing. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Homeland Security says both suspects are from the Dominican Republic and are in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">DHS also says both have prior arrests in New York, including weapon possession charges. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mercedes was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-detective-stabbed-during-robbery-released-from-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released from Jacobi Hospital<\/a> Monday and is recovering at home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Caraballo and Mejia remain at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has identified two men wanted in connection with the stabbing and robbery of off-duty NYPD Detective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-366288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366288","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=366288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}