{"id":573002,"date":"2026-09-02T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=573002"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:23:00","slug":"two-minsk-residents-break-into-two-dozen-punching-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/two-minsk-residents-break-into-two-dozen-punching-machines","title":{"rendered":"Two Minsk Residents Break Into Two Dozen Punching Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Minsk police reported the detention of two young city residents suspected of breaking into arcade machines.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the two men, aged 19 and 20, targeted &#8220;punching machine&#8221; strength testers. They are suspected of carrying out at least 20 break-ins.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The suspects followed a specific scheme: one kept watch and pretended to punch the bag, while the other broke open the machine&#8217;s casing. The young men put the stolen money into a backpack and then spent it on taxis and entertainment for themselves and their friends,&#8221;<\/em> the Minsk City Executive Committee&#8217;s Main Internal Affairs Directorate said.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the two men stole 4,000 rubles. Criminal cases have been opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk police reported the detention of two young city residents suspected of breaking into arcade machines. According to police, the two men, aged 19 and 20, targeted &#8220;punching machine&#8221; strength testers. They are suspected of carrying out at least 20 break-ins. &#8220;The suspects followed a specific scheme: one kept watch and pretended to punch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a97c0c76e58d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Two Minsk Residents Break Into Two Dozen Punching Machines"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}