{"id":275652,"date":"2026-08-31T08:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:42:13","slug":"second-center-city-robbery-with-ar-15-style-rifle-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275652\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Center City robbery with AR-15-style rifle reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia police are investigating a second armed robbery in Center City involving a suspect carrying what appeared to be an AR-15-style rifle, less than a week after a similar holdup blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident happened around 2:15 a.m. Friday on the 1500 block of Sansom Street. Police said a 23-year-old man and two friends were returning home when two masked men jumped out of a light gray or beige four-door sedan with tinted windows. One suspect was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and the second carried a black handgun.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects stole two gold chains from the victim\u2019s neck and demanded his silver diamond watch before fleeing west on Sansom Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/2nd-center-city-philadelphia-robbery-involving-ar-15-style-rifle-investigation\/19754944\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police said<\/a>. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery follows a similar incident around 3 a.m. the previous Sunday on the 1500 block of Locust Street, just one block south. In that case, investigators said masked men carrying what appeared to be an AR-15-style rifle robbed three people, taking cellphones, watches, car keys, wallets, driver\u2019s licenses and cash before fleeing in a Honda.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not determined whether the two robberies are connected. No arrests have been made in either case. Anyone with information is asked to contact Philadelphia police at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are investigating a second armed robbery in Center City involving a suspect carrying what appeared to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-275652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275652","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=275652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}