{"id":5298,"date":"2015-09-11T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T17:00:59","slug":"caln-police-seek-armed-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"Caln police seek armed robber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1179573\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FamilyDollar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1179573\" class=\"wp-image-1179573 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FamilyDollar.png\" alt=\"FamilyDollar\" width=\"147\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1179573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caln Police released this security camera image of an alleged armed robber who hit the Family Dollar story Thursday night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CALN \u2014 Township police are investigating a reported armed robbery at the Family Dollar store on Lincoln Highway, Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a man approached the entrance of the store a little after 8:30 p.m., accosted an employee standing outside and forced her to go into the store with him. He then, police said, announced a robbery and brandished a small semi-automatic handgun. Allegedly, the man instructed employees to remove an undisclosed amount of cash from the register and place it in a reusable shopping bag the alleged perpetrator brought with him.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He then left \u2014 police said it was unclear whether he left on foot or by vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as a dark-skinned black male, standing in excess of 6\u20194\u201d with a large build. He was wearing black sweatpants, a gray hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and the drawstring pulled tight, as well as a blue bandana to conceal his face, and white gloves.<\/p>\n<p>The township Police Department is urging anyone who may have information about the incident to contact the Criminal Investigation Division at 610-383-1821.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALN \u2014 Township police are investigating a reported armed robbery at the Family Dollar store on Lincoln Highway, Thursday evening. Police said that a man approached the entrance of the store a little after 8:30 p.m., accosted an employee standing outside and forced her to go into the store with him. He then, police said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[3387,190,3388],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-armed-robbery","tag-caln","tag-family-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}