{"id":23300,"date":"2022-06-22T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23300"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:12:55","slug":"polk-county-deputies-are-looking-for-a-former-mcdonalds-employee-who-they-said-burglarized-his-former-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/polk-county-deputies-are-looking-for-a-former-mcdonalds-employee-who-they-said-burglarized-his-former-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County deputies are looking for a former McDonald\u2019s employee who they said burglarized his former workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Melik Khayitov, 18, of Lakeland was caught on camera while breaking into the McDonald\u2019s on CR 540-A at 1:10 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Khayitov allegedly stole all of the money inside the restaurant\u2019s safe before driving off, according to deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sheriff\u2019s office said the 18-year-old\u2019s former coworkers identified him as the suspect. He is wanted for charges of grand theft, burglary, and possession of burglary tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khayitov is described as being 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, and having black hair and brown eyes. Deputies said he drives a \u201cgreen 2002 Honda Accord with GA tag TCX 7181.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you know where he is, call Detective Haynes at 863-499-2400 and reference case number 22-25782.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anonymous tips can also be made by calling Heartland Crime Stoppers Florida at 1-800-226 TIPS (8477), dialing **TIPS from your cell phone, visiting the Crime Stoppers website <\/a>, or using the P3tips app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Melik Khayitov, 18, of Lakeland was caught on camera while breaking into the McDonald\u2019s on CR 540-A at 1:10 a.m. Khayitov allegedly stole all… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[3019],"class_list":["post-23300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-former-mcdonalds-employee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}