{"id":395352,"date":"2026-08-02T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:05:10","slug":"knife-wielding-walmart-robbery-suspect-arrested-following-tip-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395352\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding Walmart robbery suspect arrested following tip, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Pastrano Rojas is accused of threatening an off-duty officer at a Vance Jackson Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A man accused of threatening an off-duty officer with a knife during a shoplifting attempt at a local Walmart is behind bars after San Antonio Police received a tip identifying him.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Pastrano Rojas faces robbery charges stemming from the incident at the Walmart location off Vance Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a store employee saw Rojas attempting to steal a pair of sunglasses and tried to stop him alongside an off-duty Eagle Pass ISD police officer who was working as a security officer.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Rojas handed over the sunglasses before pulling out a knife and threatening both men. He then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Crime Stoppers released photos shortly after the incident seeking help to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a month later, police received a tip identifying Rojas, and he was arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Pastrano Rojas is accused of threatening an off-duty officer at a Vance Jackson Walmart. SAN ANTONIO \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395352","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=395352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}