{"id":380978,"date":"2026-10-23T18:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380978\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:32:54","slug":"news-12-bronx-longwood-family-reunited-with-french-bulldogs-stolen-from-front-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380978\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Longwood Family Reunited With French Bulldogs Stolen From Front Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two French bulldogs who were stolen from the front yard of Longwood home have been reunited with their rightful owners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Frank Vega and his family began a desperate search after discovering a masked individual climbed their fence on Dawson Street, opened the gate then walked off with their beloved pets on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family was devastated by the loss of 2-year-old Marley and Beyonce. &#8220;It was unbelievable,&#8221; Vega told News 12. &#8220;It was sad and it was disgusting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors and friends joined the search effort, posting photos of the dogs across social media in the hopes of receiving tips.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The dogs remained missing until Thursday. The family says investigators told them a woman purchased the dogs for just $20 from a man who said he needed drug money.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">However, the woman\u2019s mother had seen <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/sad-and-disgusting-pair-of-french-bulldogs-stolen-from-longwood-yard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News 12\u2019s previous report<\/a> on the dognapping and brought them to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a video from the police station, Marley and Beyonce could be seen excitedly running to a family member.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As of Friday morning, authorities have not revealed if any arrests have been made in connection with the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two French bulldogs who were stolen from the front yard of Longwood home have been reunited with their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-380978","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\/380978","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=380978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}