{"id":270969,"date":"2026-08-24T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270969\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:28:10","slug":"armed-robbery-occurs-in-center-city-on-sunday-police-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270969\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbery occurs in Center City on Sunday, police say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An armed robbery involving three masked men occurred in Center City in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said. <\/p>\n

The incident occurred at the 1500 block of Locust Street at around 3 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 23, police said. <\/p>\n

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According to police, three masked men — two of whom were armed with handguns and the third an AR-15-style rifle — approached three victims after getting out of a grey Hyundai. The three victims were ordered to the ground and the robbers demanded their belongings. <\/p>\n

Two of the victims complied, but a third resisted and was struck in the face with a handgun during the altercation, police said. <\/p>\n

The robbers got away with watches, cell phones, car keys, wallets and driver’s licenses, among other items, police said. <\/p>\n

The three suspects then fled eastbound on Locust Street in their grey Hyundai, police said. <\/p>\n

The suspects have not been taken into custody at this time, police said. <\/p>\n

Anyone with any information on the incident is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously online here.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a developing story; check back for more details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed robbery involving three masked men occurred in Center City in the early hours of Sunday morning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1157,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-270969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270969","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=270969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}