{"id":379560,"date":"2026-10-22T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379560\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:50:26","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-robbers-beat-60-year-old-man-with-tree-branches-in-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379560\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Robbers Beat 60 Year Old Man With Tree Branches In Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying two people accused of a violent robbery in Prospect Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the 60-year-old victim was approached by the suspects near East and Center drive on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The duo forced him to the ground, struck him repeatedly with tree branches and demanded his belongings. They took $145 before fleeing the scene in an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the victim sustained minor injuries to his head, knees and hands during the attack. However, he refused medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities have released images of the suspects. Anyone with additional information is urged to call 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying two people accused of a violent robbery in Prospect Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-379560","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\/379560","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=379560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}