{"id":157630,"date":"2026-04-05T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:16:11","slug":"pennsylvania-man-arrested-after-armed-robbery-car-theft-in-williston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157630\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man arrested after armed robbery, car theft in Williston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WILLISTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after police say he robbed a gas station at gunpoint and then stole a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Williston Police Department said they responded to an armed robbery at Stewarts gas station in Williston just before 8 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said 38-year-old Maurice Nelson of Philadelphia held a firearm at the store clerk, took cash and merchandise before leaving the scene by stealing a customer\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said roughly one hour later, Burlington police found the stolen car on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nelson ran out of the car before police caught him and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLISTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after police say he robbed a gas station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71383,71385,139,28,30,29,71387,30080,71386,39055,71384],"class_list":{"0":"post-157630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-burlington-police-arrest","9":"tag-jolley-mobil-robbery","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-stolen-car-burlington","15":"tag-vermont","16":"tag-vermont-gun-crime","17":"tag-wcax","18":"tag-williston-armed-robbery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157630","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=157630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}