{"id":85795,"date":"2025-12-31T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:03:08","slug":"new-york-man-steals-over-4k-worth-of-merchandise-from-westlake-ulta-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85795\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man steals over $4K worth of merchandise from Westlake Ulta, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WESTLAKE, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A New York man is accused of stealing more than $4,000 worth of merchandise from a Westlake Ulta on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a release, at around noon, Westlake Police received a call from Ulta reporting a shoplifting in progress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Employees reported that a man had come into the store and walked around, appearing to talk on his cell phone. Eventually, he pulled out a large garbage bag, a mask, and loaded the bag up with items. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the man fled and yelled vulgarities at employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Witnesses reported that the man entered a silver F-150 with Pennsylvania plates before driving away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The truck was tracked to North Olmsted with FLOCK license plate readers. According to the release, reports note that the plate was entered as stolen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">North Olmsted Police tried to stop the truck that was fleeing onto I-480, but called off the chase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Ohio State Highway Patrol found the truck and chased it into Trumbull County, where it crashed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said two men were taken into custody by OSHP, and the stolen Ulta products were recovered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Westlake Police said it will present felony theft charges to the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for the 18-year-old Staten Island, New York man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTLAKE, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A New York man is accused of stealing more than $4,000 worth of merchandise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,41712,41713,41711],"class_list":{"0":"post-85795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-polce","12":"tag-ulta","13":"tag-westlake"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85795","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=85795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}