{"id":114843,"date":"2026-02-15T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114843\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:04:13","slug":"police-looking-for-suspect-after-video-shows-woman-robbed-in-philadelphias-tacony-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114843\/","title":{"rendered":"Police looking for suspect after video shows woman robbed in Philadelphia&#8217;s Tacony neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect who was seen on surveillance video robbing a woman while she was waiting for the bus at the beginning of February, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the robbery happened on Feb. 5 at around 5:30 a.m. near the 6900 block of Torresdale Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pxmegViKl0U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a>, a man in a hoodie approaches a woman using a walking aid and pulls on her purse strap, leading her to fall down on the sidewalk. Police said she was dragged for a short distance. The man then ran toward the 4600 block of Disston Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/snip-pd.png#.png\" alt=\"snip-pd.png \" height=\"313\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Philadelphia Police<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s purse with cash, a cellphone, her keys and ID were taken, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information connected to the crime, police are asking you to call the Northeast Detective Division at 215-686-3153.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect who was seen on surveillance video robbing a woman while she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2245,2781,22061],"class_list":{"0":"post-114843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-philadelphia-police","12":"tag-robbery","13":"tag-tacony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114843","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=114843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}