{"id":19886,"date":"2025-10-30T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:08:09","slug":"alexander-rivera-arrested-after-slamming-car-into-reading-store-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19886\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Rivera arrested after slamming car into Reading store | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested in Reading after police say he slammed a car into a convenience store multiple times early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four-year-old Alexander Rivera of the 900 block of N. Third Street, Reading, was arrested after the incident at the Citgo at 245 Buttonwood Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he crawled inside the store and tried opening the register but crawled back outside. He was apprehended by police after a short chase.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the car he used had been stolen from the 600 block of Lincoln St.<\/p>\n<p>The store sold a winning ticket for Friday&#8217;s $1.3 million Cash Five drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested in Reading after police say he slammed a car into a convenience store multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-19886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886","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=19886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}