{"id":36262,"date":"2013-06-03T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36262"},"modified":"2013-06-05T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:49:14","slug":"tourists-robbed-outside-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/tourists-robbed-outside-atlantis","title":{"rendered":"Tourists Robbed Outside Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/tourists-robbed-outside-atlantis-36262.html\/atlantis-8\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36263\" title=\"atlantis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/atlantis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/atlantis.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/atlantis-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/atlantis-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Two American tourists were robbed at gunpoint outside the Royal Towers, Atlantis Resort and Casino, early Sunday morning, Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said around 1:00am on Sunday, June 2, 2013, a man armed with a handgun approached them and demanded cash. The suspect fled the area on foot. No one was harmed during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson said the suspect, who was only described as a dark man, was still at large.<\/p>\n<p>Acting U.S. Charge d&#8217;Affaires John Armstrong told The Nassau Guardian in March that crime is a major issue here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be perfectly honest,&#8221; Armstrong said. &#8220;Bahamian officials, average Bahamians, American diplomats, and other diplomats have noticed that there&#8217;s a serious situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the U.S. Embassy has an obligation to warn U.S. citizens of crime trends. The most recent warning was issued last month.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Royston Jones, Jr. <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Staff Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two American tourists were robbed at gunpoint outside of the Royal Towers, Atlantis Resort and Casino, Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109,31,283,33],"class_list":["post-36262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-atlantis","tag-crime","tag-robbery","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}