{"id":539298,"date":"2010-04-22T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101648"},"modified":"2010-04-22T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:42:20","slug":"secret-service-investigating-kal-penn-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539298","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Investigating Kal Penn Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secret Service has joined the investigation into the curbside robbery of actor-turned-politician Kal Penn in Washington this week.<\/p>\n

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Penn, real name Kalpen Modi, was mugged on a street in the Nation’s Capital early Monday after a gun-wielding man fled with his wallet and personal belongings. According to police sources, Penn was walking on S. Street in Northwest around 1:20 AM when he was approached by armed suspects.<\/p>\n

Sources say they forced him to the ground, took his money, his wallet, and his government identification.<\/p>\n

TMZ.com spies tattle that the thief also took off with Penn\u2019s two cell phones, one of which was issued by the US government. The Harold & Kumar<\/em> actor left Hollywood in 2009 to join President Obama\u2019s team as the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement. Since one of the stolen phones belongs to the government, the Secret Service has joined Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department in the investigation of the robbery.<\/p>\n

White House Communications reportedly stopped service on the stolen phone immediately after Penn informed them of the robbery.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

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The Secret Service has joined the investigation into the curbside robbery of actor-turned-politician Kal Penn in Washington this week. Penn, real name Kalpen Modi, was mugged on a street in the Nation’s Capital early Monday after a gun-wielding man fled with his wallet and personal belongings. According to police sources, Penn was walking on S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}