{"id":3520,"date":"2008-06-13T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:19:34","slug":"merely_show_me_you_have_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/merely_show_me_you_have_money.html","title":{"rendered":"Merely Show Me You Have Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/121336201230070.xml&#038;coll=1\">OK, it&#8217;s there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It wasn&#8217;t the most cerebral bank robbery scheme ever hatched &#8212; a homeless man with a knapsack in his hands walked into a Richmond County Savings Bank branch in Eltingville Tuesday morning and shouted, &#8220;Give me the money!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And when the bank employees wouldn&#8217;t give him anything, cops say he left. <\/p>\n<p>Police caught up with the suspect, 35-year-old Yamil Almedina-Torres, minutes later, just down the block from the 4523 Amboy Rd. branch.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yes, that counts as attempted robbery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When they searched him, he had a small baggie of pot on his person, cops allege. <\/p>\n<p>Almedina-Torres, who gave Project Hospitality&#8217;s Homeless Drop In Center on Central Avenue in St. George as his address, was charged with third-degree attempted robbery and unlawful possession of marijuana.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s there: It wasn&#8217;t the most cerebral bank robbery scheme ever hatched &#8212; a homeless man with a knapsack in his hands walked into a Richmond County Savings Bank branch in Eltingville Tuesday morning and shouted, &#8220;Give me the money!&#8221; And when the bank employees wouldn&#8217;t give him anything, cops say he left. Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see_the_thing_is_was","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}