{"id":2149,"date":"2004-01-19T02:57:17","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/local-excitement-dumb-criminals\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:15:34","slug":"local-excitement-dumb-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/19\/local-excitement-dumb-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Local excitement, dumb criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12079,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/local\\\/157183_standoff19.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/local\\\/157183_standoff19.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t see any of this myself, apparently life got a little exciting for Bellevue residents yesterday as <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/157183_standoff19.html?source=rss\" title=\"3 surrender after a long standoff at Bellevue hotel\">the FBI barricaded robbery suspects inside a hotel<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  More than 200 guests were trapped in a hotel for 4 1\/2 hours yesterday morning as FBI agents negotiated with bank robbery suspects barricaded inside.<\/p>\n<p>  The standoff ended peacefully around 12:30 p.m. when the three suspects came out of their room at the Embassy Suites Hotel at 3325 158th Ave. S.E. near the Eastgate shopping center.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, the suspects surrendered peacefully, and noone was hurt. My favorite bit of the story, though?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The three men, charged with the Jan.\u00a012 armed robbery of a bank in Cape Girardeau, Mo., had registered at the Bellevue hotel in their own names.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good way to stay undercover, guys. ;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Oh Yeah&#8221; by Yello from the album <em>Essential<\/em> (1985, 3:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 guests were trapped in a Bellevue hotel for 4 1\/2 hours yesterday morning as FBI agents negotiated with bank robbery suspects barricaded inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}