{"id":25057,"date":"2017-07-14T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=25057"},"modified":"2017-07-14T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:56:12","slug":"sucker-punch-suspect-faces-additional-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=25057","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sucker Punch&#8217; suspect faces additional charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4613\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-14-at-9.44.30-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4613\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4613\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-14-at-9.44.30-AM-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Baker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The man charged with slugging a disabled man in front of a West Chester 7-11 faces additional charges, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Baker, 29, currently of Georgetown, DE, but a former East Fallowfield resident, now faces additional charges of Flight to Avoid Apprehension, Hogan said. Baker was the subject of a manhunt after videos showed him taunting and then sucker punching a disabled man in from the 7-11 on High Street, May 10.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Baker previously faced charges of simple assault and charges related to failing to appear at two court-mandated appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;On May 10 of this year, the defendant <span class=\"s1\">sucker <\/span>punched a man with cerebral <span class=\"s2\">palsy,&#8221; Hogan said<\/span><span class=\"s3\">. &#8220;<\/span>Since that unprovoked attack, the defendant has been arrested for assault, had his parole revoked, went on the run, was captured, and <span class=\"s1\">now<\/span> has been charged with flight. The defendant&#8217;s fiancee has <span class=\"s1\">been <\/span>arrested for <span class=\"s1\">helping the <\/span>defendant flee<span class=\"s10\">. <\/span>The defendant&#8217;s father has been arrested for dealing drugs. This is how Chester County law <span class=\"s1\">enforcement<\/span> deals with bullies who pick on disabled people<span class=\"s10\">.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Hogan said that Baker went into hiding with the help of his fiancee \u2014 who helped him get a hotel room at the Clarion Inn in Exton under an assumed name as well as a pre-paid cell phone. U.S. Marshalls apprehended Baker on June 5, who was allegedly hiding in the bathroom of the hotel room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man charged with slugging a disabled man in front of a West Chester 7-11 faces additional charges, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Thursday. Barry Baker, 29, currently of Georgetown, DE, but a former East Fallowfield resident, now faces additional charges of Flight to Avoid Apprehension, Hogan said. Baker was the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9191,8960,6518,8957],"class_list":["post-25057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-additional-charges","tag-barry-baker","tag-featured","tag-sucker-punch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25058,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions\/25058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}