{"id":19394,"date":"2013-02-04T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2013-02-04T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:21:22","slug":"mistakenly-freed-chicago-killer-caught-while-watching-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19394","title":{"rendered":"Mistakenly Freed Chicago Killer Caught While Watching TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0 \u2014 Two days after a stunning series of errors allowed a convicted murderer to walk out of a Chicago jail where he did not need to be in the first place, police recaptured the man at a northern Illinois home where he was found watching TV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven L. Robbins<\/strong>, 44, put up no resistance Friday night as police burst through the door of a townhome in Kankakee, about 60 miles south of Chicago, said Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman <strong>Frank Bilecki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in the living room or kitchen area watching TV, taken by total surprise,\u201d <strong>Bilecki<\/strong> said, adding that it appears the homeowner might know an acquaintance of <strong>Robbins<\/strong>. Before the arrest, a surveillance team spotted<strong> Robbins <\/strong>wearing a curly wig while carrying groceries from a vehicle into the home, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>By Saturday afternoon, <strong>Robbins<\/strong> was back in the Indiana State Prison, where he was serving a 60-year sentence for murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0 \u2014 Two days after a stunning series of errors allowed a convicted murderer to walk out of a Chicago jail where he did not need to be in the first place, police recaptured the man at a northern Illinois home where he was found watching TV. Steven L. Robbins, 44, put up no resistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}