{"id":352139,"date":"2026-06-27T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:28:12","slug":"lubbock-man-arrested-after-robbery-gun-threats-at-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352139\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock man arrested after robbery, gun threats at convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man is in custody after threatening people with a gun and stealing from a convenience store, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers were called to a convenience store near Interstate 27 and 34th Street for a reported robbery earlier this week. When officers arrived, they were told Jerry Smith, 38, had stolen two cases of beer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say Smith also pointed a gun at a store employee who followed him outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith fled the scene in a distinctive yellow PT Cruiser. Officers located him a short time later in his vehicle, where he was threatening others with a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators took Smith into custody. He is currently held at the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith faces charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and fraud. His bond is set at $203,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man is in custody after threatening people with a gun and stealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-352139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}