{"id":27471,"date":"2019-10-21T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27471"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:08:19","slug":"i-was-scared-postal-worker-recalls-terrifying-experience-of-being-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-canton-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/10\/21\/i-was-scared-postal-worker-recalls-terrifying-experience-of-being-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-canton-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was scared\u2019: Postal worker recalls terrifying experience of being robbed at gunpoint in Canton, OH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=41dHBuaTE67WjTsf3a_khr855avwKF-y&amp;pbid=b248f00b9d6e4d7ba21cbc796a85f61c&amp;pcode=hvZXE6LAucDf6RdQ6h18j_W_oNxg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CANTON, Ohio &#8212; Canton police are investigating after a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police report, it happened on Cherry Avenue around 3 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim said he was delivering mail when the suspect got out of a car came over to him with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>He then forced him to empty his pockets and threatened to shoot him in the leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was scared. I have an eight-year-old son. I&#8217;m a mailman. I shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about someone coming up to me with a gun,&#8221; he told FOX 8&#8217;s Paul Kiska.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspect took $18 from his wallet and then did something surprising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He gave me my wallet back, so at least he was generous,&#8221; said the postal worker. <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/2019\/10\/20\/postal-worker-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-canton-police-searching-for-suspect\/\">Fox 8 Cleveland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27472\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Canton-Carrier-Robbed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Canton-Carrier-Robbed.jpg 482w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Canton-Carrier-Robbed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Canton-Carrier-Robbed-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, Ohio &#8212; Canton police are investigating after a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint. According to the police report, it happened on Cherry Avenue around 3 p.m. Saturday. The victim said he was delivering mail when the suspect got out of a car came over to him with a gun. He then forced him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27473,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27471\/revisions\/27473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}