{"id":23689,"date":"2011-06-02T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2011-06-02T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:50:27","slug":"soldier-foils-bank-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23689","title":{"rendered":"Soldier foils bank robber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq veteran Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples took time out from his vacation in Sarasota, FL this week to fight a bad guy here at home. Peoples was at the bank with his two sons when Matthew Rogers entered brandishing a gun and ordering everyone on the floor. Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldier-on-leave-in-florida-subdues-bank-robber-1.145452\">The Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the robber left and walked toward his get-away car, Peoples followed, leaving his kids in the bank. Peoples\u2019 van was closer to the entrance and he reached his vehicle first. He said he hurriedly drove at Rogers\u2019 car and blocked its escape.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief confrontation in which the bank robber trained his weapon on him, Peoples disarmed and subdued Rogers, and grabbed the bank bag. It took police a few minutes to sort out who was who before they arrested Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of my deployments, except for the last one, have been hairy,\u201d Peoples said. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t look at it as a big thing. I really don\u2019t consider myself a hero.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out the gun was a BB-gun, but that doesn&#8217;t take anything away from the 34-year-old dad and soldier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once Rogers was in police custody, Peoples returned to the bank to get his two boys. When he entered the lobby, the bank\u2019s occupants erupted in cheers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq veteran Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples took time out from his vacation in Sarasota, FL this &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier foils bank robber\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23689\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier foils bank robber<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}