{"id":158708,"date":"2026-08-06T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/158708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:22","slug":"teens-charged-following-robbery-of-calgary-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/158708\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens charged following robbery of Calgary senior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two teen boys, ages 14 and 16, have been charged with robbery after attempting to steal a senior&#8217;s purse last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. on July 11. The two teens approached a 75-year-old woman, who was walking from her car to her apartment on 17th Ave S.E. near Elliston Park, and attempted to steal her purse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman fought back and screamed for help, at which point a neighbour intervened. She suffered minor injuries and was treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boys had fled the scene before police arrived, but two suspects were identified using CCTV footage, witness interviews and a comparison of evidence from a previous robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teens, who cannot be named under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were charged with one count each of robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This was an unprovoked and opportunistic robbery that targeted a Calgarian going about their day. This incident will have a lasting impact on the victim, beyond her physical injuries,&#8221; said Staff Sgt. Keith Shufelt in a Thursday statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The random nature of this offence and the ages of those charged are particularly concerning,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Catch up with the day&#8217;s headlines, curated by our editors and delivered to your email inbox at lunchtime on every business day. Sign up now for the Calgary Herald Noon News Roundup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teen boys, ages 14 and 16, have been charged with robbery after attempting to steal a senior&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,341,11553],"class_list":["post-158708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}