{"id":195410,"date":"2025-09-03T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195410\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:13:15","slug":"thief-crashes-los-angeles-area-wedding-and-steals-gift-box-holding-60000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195410\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief crashes Los Angeles-area wedding and steals gift box holding $60,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-3a0d67\" class=\"body-graf\">Police in the Los Angeles area were looking for a man who swiped a wedding gift box holding  $60,000 in cash and checks as guests celebrated the newlyweds at a banquet hall.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3a4d46\" class=\"body-graf\">The brazen theft occurred early Sunday shortly after midnight at Renaissance Banquet Hall in Glendale, a city just northeast of Hollywood, police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glendaleca.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/9367\/5438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a statement <\/a>Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250902-Renaissance-Banquet-Hall-Glendale-ch-1721-d26ef2.jpg\" alt=\"Renaissance Banquet Hall in Glendale.\" height=\"1666\" width=\"2500\"\/>Renaissance Banquet Hall in Glendale.Google Maps<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-60e69e\" class=\"body-graf\">Inside the box was around $60,000 in cash and checks, wedding gifts for the couple, police said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c3670f\" class=\"body-graf\">Video from the banquet hall shown on <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/brazen-wedding-crasher-caught-on-camera-stealing-tens-thousands-of-dollars-gifts-from-couple\/17717151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC affiliate KABC<\/a> of Los Angeles and <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/wedding-crasher-reportedly-steals-100k-in-gifts-from-southern-california-couple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">local news station KTLA<\/a> shows the man, bald and dressed in black, grab the box from a table and dash off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-aa285a\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">The man got into the passenger seat of a &#8220;newer black Mercedes SUV,&#8221; police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glendaleca.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/9367\/5438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in the statement<\/a>, which included surveillance photos of the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in the Los Angeles area were looking for a man who swiped a wedding gift box holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-195410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115137479057111950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}