{"id":20031,"date":"2026-07-10T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:40:21","slug":"whittlesea-armed-robbery-at-epping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/07\/10\/whittlesea-armed-robbery-at-epping\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITTLESEA: Armed robbery at Epping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have arrested a man following an attempted armed robbery in Epping on Sunday night, July 5.<br>It is understood the man approached the counter of a fast-food restaurant on the corner of High St and Cooper St just after 10.30pm.<br>Officers have been told the man produced a wooden bat and demanded a staff member hand over cash from the till.<br>When he was told the till was empty, he fled the scene on foot. No one was physically injured.<br>The 51-year-old Lalor man was located by police nearby. He was arrested and will be interviewed in relation to the incident.<br>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a man following an attempted armed robbery in Epping on Sunday night, July 5.It is understood the man approached the counter of a fast-food restaurant on the corner of High St and Cooper St just after 10.30pm.Officers have been told the man produced a wooden bat and demanded a staff member hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20034,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions\/20034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}