{"id":900321,"date":"2026-09-21T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900321\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:22:10","slug":"large-police-presence-on-highway-218-tied-to-reported-mental-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900321\/","title":{"rendered":"Large police presence on Highway 218 tied to reported mental health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vqf8zdtx_400x400-150x150.webp\" class=\"alignleft thumbnail-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"vqf8zdtx_400x400\" wpb-att-id=\"51908\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"thumbnail\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lang<br \/>9\/21\/26<\/p>\n<p>A large law enforcement presence on Highway 218 Saturday night was the result of a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa City Police, University Heights Police, the Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Iowa State Patrol all responded to the bridge over Melrose Avenue just before 9:15 for reports of a female who looked as if she might walk into traffic. After about a half-hour of negotiations with arriving officers, the woman agreed to be taken to University of Iowa Health Care for a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>No other details have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lang9\/21\/26 A large law enforcement presence on Highway 218 Saturday night was the result of a mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-900321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}