{"id":53057,"date":"2025-01-02T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=53057"},"modified":"2025-01-02T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:15:36","slug":"you-may-remember-that-we-posted-about-patrick-last-week-when-he-stole-equipment-from-polk-county-fire-rescue-right-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/01\/02\/you-may-remember-that-we-posted-about-patrick-last-week-when-he-stole-equipment-from-polk-county-fire-rescue-right-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"You may remember that we posted about Patrick last week, when he stole equipment from Polk County Fire Rescue\u2026 Right before Christmas."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, he might be in jail, but he\u2019s continuing to be charged with burglaries. Today, our detectives were contacted by a resident of Winter Haven, who had just returned home from a Christmas vacation. As she was reviewing the Ring camera footage from her house, she noticed a thief stealing packages off her doorstep on December 23, 2024. She called us, and we immediately identified the suspect as good ole Patrick Ciszek, and we knew exactly where to find him (the Polk County Jail).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"c7aca4\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp?resize=526%2C526&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53058 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #c7aca4; width:332px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ciszek may be behind bars, but that doesn\u2019t protect him from being charged with more crimes. He\u2019ll have to answer for this theft, the one he was already arrested for, and any other thefts he has committed as we continue to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OxkU3PToTS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/12\/26\/arrested-for-being-a-grinch\/\">Arrested for being a Grinch<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Arrested for being a Grinch&#8221; &#8212; \" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/12\/26\/arrested-for-being-a-grinch\/embed\/#?secret=vKA7NGWuUk#?secret=OxkU3PToTS\" data-secret=\"OxkU3PToTS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he might be in jail, but he\u2019s continuing to be charged with burglaries. Today, our detectives were contacted by a resident of Winter Haven, who had just returned home&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDFcLzQ3MjI0NTU2NV85ODgwMTYyMzAwMjg0MTNfNjE2MDM1NzMyMTQzNzg3MDM3Ml9uLndlYnA_Zml0PTUyNiUyQzUyNiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IllvdSBtYXkgcmVtZW1iZXIgdGhhdCB3ZSBwb3N0ZWQgYWJvdXQgUGF0cmljayBsYXN0IHdlZWssIHdoZW4gaGUgc3RvbGUgZXF1aXBtZW50IGZyb20gUG9sayBDb3VudHkgRmlyZSBSZXNjdWVcdTIwMjYgUmlnaHQgYmVmb3JlIENocmlzdG1hcy4iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.v9mhAS1XUflDbkHWMOL2v0JX0kSN7EfGQoMbbFQdXaoMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":53058,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472245565_988016230028413_6160357321437870372_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[10638],"class_list":["post-53057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-you-may-remember-that-we-posted-about-patrick-last-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53057","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53059,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53057\/revisions\/53059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}