Yakima police arrested a suspect\nin an armed robbery that occurred earlier today and are searching for suspects\nin two other armed robberies that happened over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At about 7:50 am today (Monday,\nDecember 31st<\/sup>), YPD officers responded to a report of an armed\nrobbery at the Conoco mini-market located at 1023 South 3rd<\/sup>\nAvenue. As officers were responding to\nthe call, information was provided to them that the man suspected of having\nrobbed the mini-mart had left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and\nwas headed east on a bicycle. Officers,\nincluding a YPD K-9, located a man fitting the suspect’s description about four\nblocks from the mini-mart. The suspect attempted to flee from officers, but was\napprehended about a block from where he was first located. Officers recovered cash that the suspect had\nthrown over a nearby fence. The suspect,\n27-year-old Heraclio Amezcua-Diaz, has been booked into the Yakima County jail\nand charged with1st degree armed robbery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At about 9:15 am on Saturday,\nDecember 29th<\/sup>, YPD officers responded to a report of an armed\nrobbery at the College Mart mini-market located at 1106 West Nob Hill\nBoulevard. A cashier at the store told\nofficers a man described as having light skin and dark hair and wearing a black\ncoat and black pants entered the mini-market, displayed a gun, and demanded\nmoney. The suspect was also wearing a\nwhite and red bandana on his face. The\nsuspect left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and headed east on\nNob Hill on a bicycle. Police are\nactively searching for the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Sunday, December 30th<\/sup>\nat about 5:40 pm, YPD officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at the\nSubway restaurant located at 1607 West Lincoln Avenue. The suspect was described as having dark skin\nand wearing a gray sweatshirt, black pants, and a dark beanie. The suspect was also wearing a gray bandana\non his face. The suspect displayed a gun\nand demanded money. The suspect left the\nstore with an undisclosed amount of cash. \nYPD deployed a K-9 to search for the suspect, but he was not\nlocated. Police are actively searching\nfor the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone\nwith information regarding the armed robberies at the College Mart and the\nLincoln Avenue Subway is urged to contact the Yakima Police Department at (509)\n575-6200 or by calling 9-1-1. Tips can be also be reported to Yakima County\nCrime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-248-9980, on the organization’s website at crimestoppersyakco.org, or through the “P3 Tips” app\nthat can be downloaded for free at p3intel.com\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yakima police arrested a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier today and are searching for suspects in two other armed robberies that happened over the weekend. At about 7:50 am today (Monday, December 31st), YPD officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Conoco mini-market located at 1023 South 3rd<\/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-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6780,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}