{"id":147084,"date":"2026-03-24T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:19:07","slug":"pittsburgh-police-searching-for-suspect-after-armed-robbery-in-citys-hill-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147084\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police searching for suspect after armed robbery in city&#8217;s Hill District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh police are searching for a suspect after an armed robbery at a store late Monday night in the city&#8217;s Hill District.<\/p>\n<p>Zone 2 officers responded to a 911 call just before 11:45 p.m. at a business in the 2200 block of Centre Avenue after an employee reported being robbed at gunpoint, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1CSkzWNfrn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">social media post from Pittsburgh Public Safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled on foot carrying a backpack, prompting a brief chase by responding officers. Police said they lost sight of the suspect, and additional resources, including a drone unit and a K-9 team, assisted in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also cleared an abandoned apartment building the suspect was believed to have entered but did not locate anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect took about $200 in cash and several vape products. The employee was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police are searching for a suspect after an armed robbery at a store late Monday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,2781],"class_list":["post-147084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147084","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=147084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}