{"id":48729,"date":"2019-05-29T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/passerby-halts-assault-with-bear-hug\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:30:00","slug":"passerby-halts-assault-with-bear-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/passerby-halts-assault-with-bear-hug\/","title":{"rendered":"Passerby halts assault with &#8216;bear hug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple passersby intervened Tuesday evening during a downtown assault, police say, and one got up close and personal with the accused attacker.<\/p>\n<p>At about 5:19 p.m. Tuesday, the Juneau Police Department got multiple calls about a man with a knife hitting another man repeatedly, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.juneau.org\/police\/jpd-psa-individual-view\/entry\/46420\" target=\"_blank\">a JPD press <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.juneau.org\/police\/jpd-psa-individual-view\/entry\/46420\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>. Witnesses told police that a 51-year-old man and 44-year-old woman were walking near the clock at the corner of Franklin and Front streets at the time when a man, identified as 39-year-old Thomas J. May, began yelling at them.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-arrested-for-threatening-robbing-pedestrians-with-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for threatening, robbing pedestrians with gun<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>May, a Juneau resident, then began punching the 51-year-old man, police say. Several people intervened, and a 37-year-old Juneau man jumped in and put May in a &ldquo;bear hug,&rdquo; as the police describe it in the release. The man released May quickly, concerned because May had a knife on him, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>After the 37-year-old man subdued him, May fled the scene. The 51-year-old man and his companion both knew May, and were able to identify him to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found May in a matter of minutes, arrested him for third-degree assault and took him to Lemon Creek Correctional Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several other witnesses also intervened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":48730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}