{"id":12486,"date":"2016-09-29T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/police-arrest-person-of-interest-in-connection-to-best-western-theft\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:12:29","slug":"police-arrest-person-of-interest-in-connection-to-best-western-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-arrest-person-of-interest-in-connection-to-best-western-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest person of interest in connection to Best Western theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police received a call Wednesday night from a Mendenhall Valley business employee that led to the arrest of a man police believe to be tied to a theft at Best Western Country Lane Inn.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau Police Department spokesman Lt. David Campbell told the Empire on Thursday morning in an email that Keith Joseph Nelson Jr., 20, was arrested on an outstanding $20,000 Alaska State Trooper warrant for a probations violation on an original charge of two counts of burglary in the second degree. Police had asked the community Tuesday to keep an eye out for Nelson after a Best Western employee provided a description earlier that day of an alleged thief who matched Nelson\u2019s description, according to JPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Nelson at 10:41 p.m. in the 2800 block of Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to online court records, charges have not been filed against Nelson for the Tuesday morning hotel theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Contact reporter Paula Ann Solis at 523-2272 or paula.solis@juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police received a call Wednesday night from a Mendenhall Valley <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/business\/\">business<\/a> employee that led to the arrest of a man police believe to be tied to a theft at Best Western Country Lane Inn. Juneau Police Department spokesman Lt. David Campbell told the Empire on Thursday morning in an email that Keith Joseph Nelson Jr., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":12487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}