{"id":2305,"date":"2020-09-16T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/arrest-made-in-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:29:25","slug":"arrest-made-in-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/arrest-made-in-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made in Armed Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Chief Terrence Green would like to let the Town of Lexington community know that an arrest was made minutes after an armed robbery that happened overnight at the 7 Eleven located at 4301 Sunset Boulevard.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>At approximately 4:00 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 7 Eleven for an armed robbery which had just occurred.&nbsp; The victim, who was an employee, told officers that a Black male wearing a ski mask and acting as if he had a handgun under his clothing, demanded money.&nbsp; The employee gave the armed robber almost $500 in cash and he ran from the business.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Officers set up a perimeter, utilized a Lexington Police Department K-9 team, and began searching the area for the armed robber.&nbsp; An officer saw a man who matched the description of the subject, jumping a fence, and then approach a rideshare driver who had been sent to the area.&nbsp; Officers began interviewing the subject while the K-9 team found clothing worn during the robbery that had been left in the wooded area where he was seen coming from.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>This man was identified as Rodney Mckensey James Jr., age 20 of Wagner, South Carolina, and during an interview a detective, he admitted to the armed robbery where he gestured that he had a weapon but did not have a handgun.&nbsp; He was found to have almost $500 in cash in his possession.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He was placed under arrest for armed robbery and transported to the Lexington County Detention Center to await a bond hearing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Terrence Green would like to let the Town of Lexington community know that an arrest was made minutes after an armed robbery that happened overnight at the 7 Eleven located at 4301 Sunset Boulevard.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; At approximately 4:00 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 7 Eleven for an armed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/arrest-made-in-armed-robbery\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[80],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-public-safety","tag-crime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/RodneyJames_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}