Robert Hess, the man accused of robbing and running over an elderly woman in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in Ballston last week, has been caught in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
BALLSTON, N.Y. (WNYT)- Joseph Hess, the man accused of robbing a 76-year-old woman at a McDonald\u2019s in Ballston, then hitting her with a car, was caught in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Related: Police looking for man accused of robbing woman, hitting her with vehicle at Ballston McDonald\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n NewsChannel 13\u2019s Mark Mulholland first reported the news of the capture. Hess was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals at around 6:30 a.m. at a hotel in South Philadelphia. The Saratoga County Sheriff\u2019s Office provided information about Hess\u2019 possible whereabouts to the U.S. marshals.<\/p>\n Hess is being held at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He faces extradition to New York to face charges of first-degree assault and first-degree robbery. <\/p>\n Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo said he was grateful for the capture of Hess. <\/p>\n \u201cI am incredibly proud of our investigators who worked tireless to locate Hess. I am grateful and relieved that he is off the streets and pray that justice will be served for the innocent victim,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n A manhunt had been underway for Hess since the incident happened on Thursday, October 16. New York State Police also assisted in the search. <\/p>\n A Colonie hotel was raided by police Saturday night in search of Hess. Witnesses said police were at the Econo Lodge Inn Suites for over six hours keeping some of them out of their hotel rooms all afternoon.<\/p>\n Related: Police raid Colonie hotel in search for McDonald\u2019s robbery suspect<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Saratoga County<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Ballston Spa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Hess, the man accused of robbing and running over an elderly woman in the parking lot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8436,28,30,29,8435],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ballston-spa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-saratoga-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}