{"id":217271,"date":"2026-06-12T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217271\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:51:14","slug":"erie-police-investigating-armed-robbery-on-citys-east-side-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217271\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police investigating armed robbery on city\u2019s east side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie police are looking for a suspect after an armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened friday morning around 11 o\u2019clock. Police said a 21-year-old woman was walking near East 18th and Reed streets when a black Chevy sedan pulled up next to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/community-of-caring-asks-for-operation-water-drop-donations\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Community of Caring asks for Operation Water Drop donations;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Community of Caring asks for Operation Water Drop donations&quot;}\"> Community of Caring asks for Operation Water Drop donations <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect, who police said was wearing a black jogging suit, jumped out of the car with a gun and stole about $100 from the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cCertainly, concerning you know this was 10, 11 o\u2019clock in the morning on a Friday. Obviously, it\u2019s very concerning to us. The major crimes team will be taking a look at this. Obviously, there was some confrontation between the victim and individuals in this vehicle, so we\u2019ll be taking a look at that. There\u2019s some security footage in and around that area that we\u2019ll be taking a look at as well,\u201d said City of Erie Chief of Police Rick Lorah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call Erie police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie police are looking for a suspect after an armed robbery. It happened friday morning around 11 o\u2019clock.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93948,8447,136,138,137,5585,93947],"class_list":["post-217271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-11-oclock","tag-armed-robbery","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police","tag-jogging-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217271","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=217271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}