{"id":3114,"date":"2008-02-01T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/preventer_san_man.html"},"modified":"2008-02-01T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:55:51","slug":"preventer_san_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/preventer_san_man.html","title":{"rendered":"Preventer San Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you don&#8217;t expect after robbing a bank is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1201869909106520.xml&#038;coll=1\">cockblocked by a garbage truck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Frank Russo and Patrick Crocitto were emptying baskets along Clove Road in Sunnyside just before 12:30 p.m. when they spotted a man running out of Clove Lakes Wines &#038; Liquors at 1300 Clove, chasing a bandit and waving his arms, yelling &#8220;Robbery! Robbery!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sanitation workers followed the two men in their garbage truck along Genesee Street to Seneca Avenue, where they used the truck to block the robber&#8217;s path. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified the stickup man as Richard DiToro, 24, who lives with his parents on Mada Avenue in West Brighton. <\/p>\n<p>Then, Russo and Crocitto, who was wielding a shovel, chased DiToro, who fell at one point during the pursuit, and threw the bag of money he had stolen, which was recovered by the store owner, Chung Lee. <\/p>\n<p>Russo, a nine-year veteran of the department, caught DiToro and pinned him against a car.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you don&#8217;t expect after robbing a bank is getting cockblocked by a garbage truck: Frank Russo and Patrick Crocitto were emptying baskets along Clove Road in Sunnyside just before 12:30 p.m. when they spotted a man running out of Clove Lakes Wines &#038; Liquors at 1300 Clove, chasing a bandit and waving his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}