{"id":391382,"date":"2015-09-02T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=391382"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:54:00","slug":"police-longview-robbers-fight-with-store-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=391382","title":{"rendered":"Police: Longview Robbers Fight with Store Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-longview2.jpg\"><img <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-longview21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-longview21-200x154.jpg\" alt=\"police-longview2\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-391385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-longview21-200x154.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/police-longview21.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Two Longview men have been taken into custody after they allegedly tried to steal items from a local store and then reportedly fought with store employees.   The Longview Police Department says officers were dispatched to the 400 block of East Loop 281 at 1:17 Monday afternoon on reports of a robbery.  By the time authorities arrived, both suspects had left the location.<!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Workers told police a man later identified as Gary Lee Nelson, 47, of Longview, shoplifted a large amount of goods from the store. When Nelson tried to leave the business, a loss prevention employee confronted Nelson, and the worker was hit with a tube of caulking, according to reports.  When a fight broke out between the two, a man later identified as Bobby Ervin Nickoles, 43, of Longview, got out of the getaway car and struck one of the store employees, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that after hitting the worker, Nickoles ran back to his car and was about to leave &#8212; but witnesses report Nelson was still fighting with employees. Nickoles got back out of his vehicle and threatened employees with a steel pipe, leading them to release Nelson, according to reports.  At this time, both suspects reportedly jumped into the car and left the scene. Police spotted the car a short time later near the 1900 Block of Sunshine Square.  Authorities say both men abandoned their vehicle and were arrested following a short foot chase. The store&#8217;s items were recovered.  Nelson and Nickoles were taken to the Gregg County Jail without further incident and charged with robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":391385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 07:08:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391486,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391382\/revisions\/391486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}