{"id":1992696,"date":"2023-08-06T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-7-eleven-employees-under-investigation-after-thwarting-suspected-gun-strapped-thief-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T00:11:25","slug":"two-7-eleven-employees-under-investigation-after-thwarting-suspected-gun-strapped-thief-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-7-eleven-employees-under-investigation-after-thwarting-suspected-gun-strapped-thief-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 7-Eleven workers probed for stopping armed thief: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-7-eleven-employees-under-investigation-after-thwarting-suspected-gun-strapped-thief-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>7-Eleven Workers Stop and Assault Suspected Thief<\/h2>\n<p>Two 7-Eleven workers\u2062 in Northern California are currently under investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrity-chef-delivers-food-to-d-c-law-enforcement\/\" title=\"Celebrity chef delivers food to D.C. law enforcement\">local police<\/a> after taking matters into their own hands to\u200d apprehend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-suspected-thief-assaults-female-nypd-officer-at-manhattan-pharmacy\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Suspected Thief Assaults Female NYPD Officer at Manhattan Pharmacy\">suspected thief<\/a>. The incident, which \u2063occurred \u2062in Stockton, California, was\u2064 captured on video and has since gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, around 2:45 a.m., an unnamed male wearing a mask\u2062 entered the 7-Eleven store and began emptying the shelves into a large trash can, with\u200c the apparent intention\u2063 of stealing the items. The suspect could be heard arguing with the employees and claiming to have a gun hidden behind his back.<\/p>\n<p>One of the \u2064employees managed to pin the suspect to\u200c the ground, while \u200dthe other repeatedly struck the suspect&#8217;s legs with a large wooden \u200cstick. \u200dThe shocking scene was filmed by a witness named Louis Benton, who\u2063 expressed \u2062his \u2062disbelief at what he was witnessing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stockton?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Stockton<\/a> 7-Eleven employees stop a would-be thief from\u200c getting away with a trash can fill of cigarettes\/other items from behind the register. <\/p>\n<p>Answers from the man behind the\u2063 camera. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSacramento?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSSacramento<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lIq0ERhpqd\">pic.twitter.com\/lIq0ERhpqd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madisen Keavy (@madisenkeavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madisenkeavy\/status\/1687586693652824067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, \u20642023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the situation escalated, Benton decided to intervene and de-escalate the \u200bsituation. He\u200b commended the employees for their courageous act\u200b in protecting their store but felt that the \u200bforce used had become excessive.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b a recent \u2064update, the Stockton Police Department confirmed that they are investigating the incident. It was\u200c also revealed that the suspected thief had carried out two \u200bother robberies at the\u200b same 7-Eleven location\u200c within a\u2062 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u2062authorities, the suspect stole packs of cigarettes on July 28 after threatening the clerk with a gun. The following\u2064 night, \u200che demanded money from an employee while claiming to be armed. When the employee refused, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-7-eleven-employees-under-investigation-after-thwarting-suspected-gun-strapped-thief-report\/\" title=\"Two 7-Eleven workers probed for stopping armed thief: Report.\">suspect\u2064 stole food items<\/a> and left. Two hours later, he returned for \u200cthe incident captured on video.<\/p>\n<p>All the investigations have been \u200blinked, and the findings will be \u200creferred to the San\u2064 Joaquin County \u200ddistrict attorney for review.<\/p>\n<p>Stockton, according to Blaze Media, ranks 3 out of \u200b100 on Neighborhood \u2064Scout&#8217;s crime index, with 100 being the safest. The city has a high rate of violent crime, affecting 1 in every 79 people, and a significant likelihood of property crime, with 1 in 30 people \u200dexperiencing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 7-Eleven workers in Northern California are being investigated by local police for confronting and assaulting a suspected thief who had robbed their store twice. A video of the incident, filmed on July 29 at 2:45 a.m., went viral. The suspect, wearing a mask, had entered the store and walked behind the counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1992697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}