{"id":162,"date":"2013-01-14T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:40:36","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-for-purse-snatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/two-suspects-arrested-for-purse-snatching\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Suspects Arrested for Purse Snatching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> YPD Sgt. Sgt. Joe Salinas \u2013 575-6212<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Friday, January 11th shortly after 8:00 pm, Yakima Police received a report of a purse theft that had just occurred.\u00a0 The victim alleged she was confronted by a man wielding a handgun.\u00a0 The suspect demanded the victim\u2019s purse.\u00a0 She complied with the victim and the suspect fled on foot to a waiting vehicle.\u00a0 The victim was uninjured during the robbery.\u00a0 The victim immediately called a friend who was nearby.\u00a0 The friend and the victim were then able to follow the suspect vehicle in their own vehicle until police could arrive in the area.<\/p>\n<p>When a Yakima Police officer arrived in the area, he chased the suspect vehicle to the 2800 block of West Washington where the driver parked the vehicle and the suspect fled on foot.\u00a0 Several officers arrived in the area to assist, including officers from the Union Gap Police Department and the Yakima County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0 A Yakima Police K-9 was deployed and was actively tracking the suspect in the direction of his flight.\u00a0 During the track, a witness reported seeing a suspicious male running in the area of South 36<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and West Mead.\u00a0 Union Gap Police and a Yakima County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy who were in the area to assist managed to place that suspect in custody.\u00a0 A firearm was also recovered from this suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect vehicle driver and the vehicle passenger who fled were interviewed.\u00a0 Following those interviews, both were later booked into the Yakima County Jail on Robbery 1 and Assault 1 charges as well as other felony charges.\u00a0 The victim\u2019s property was also recovered from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This investigation is ongoing.\u00a0 Any additional questions regarding this incident may be referred to YPD\u2019s detective division at (509) 575-6212.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: YPD Sgt. Sgt. Joe Salinas \u2013 575-6212 On\u00a0Friday, January 11th shortly after 8:00 pm, Yakima Police received a report of a purse theft that had just occurred.\u00a0 The victim alleged she was confronted by a man wielding a handgun.\u00a0 The suspect demanded the victim\u2019s purse.\u00a0 She complied with the victim and the suspect fled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}