{"id":284178,"date":"2026-09-12T01:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284178\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:12:13","slug":"suspects-assault-steal-handgun-from-off-duty-philadelphia-police-officer-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284178\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspects assault, steal handgun from off-duty Philadelphia police officer, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">An off-duty Philadelphia police officer was beaten by multiple people and robbed of his gun late Thursday, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The gun \u2014 the officer\u2019s service weapon \u2014 had not been recovered as of Friday, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The officer, whose name was not released by police, was taken to <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/temple-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University<\/a> Hospital with cuts to his head and scrapes on his legs and feet. Police did not disclose his condition, but said the officer was stable Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Officer Tanya Little, a police spokesperson, said police were called to help the officer at about 11:45 p.m. Thursday on the 700 block of North 10th Street, between Brown Street and Fairmont Avenue in the West Poplar section of <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/north-philly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Philadelphia<\/a>, after the officer said he had been attacked by three people who stole his firearm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Little said that investigators took two people into custody for questioning, but charging information was not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min An off-duty Philadelphia police officer was beaten by multiple people and robbed of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118537,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-284178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-off-duty-philadelphia-police-officer-assaulted","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284178","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=284178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}