{"id":235070,"date":"2025-09-18T00:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235070\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:18:15","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-phoenix-for-allegedly-robbing-bank-inside-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235070\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Phoenix for allegedly robbing bank inside Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A teen accused of robbing a bank in a Cottonwood Walmart in August was arrested in Phoenix on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Cottonwood police responded to the First Convenience Bank inside a Walmart on the morning of Aug. 21 after receiving reports of a robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The suspect allegedly handed a note to a bank teller, demanding money. He received &#8220;a substantial amount of cash,&#8221; and fled the area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">After Cottonwood police identified a suspect following weeks-long investigation, the Phoenix Police Department helped them arrest 19-year-old Johnathan Pirvulescu in Phoenix. They searched his Phoenix home, finding additional evidence related to the robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Pirvulescu was arrested on charges of robbery and theft and is being held on a $25,000 bond in the Yavapai County Detention Facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This information was provided by the Cottonwood Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A teen accused of robbing a bank in a Cottonwood Walmart in August was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-235070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222433337262370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235070","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=235070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}