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Police are searching for an individual in the area of Fared Drive in Oakland Township.<\/p>\n
According to a news release from state police, officers are trying to locate an individual who fled on foot following an attempt to make a traffic stop in Butler.<\/p>\n
According to the release, police attempted to pull over an individual operating a white Hyundai Elantra with Ohio license plate number U699980 for a traffic violation in the area of North Monroe and East Brady streets when the operator refused to stop and sped off.<\/p>\n
Police are searching for a Black man with dreadlocks wearing black pants, a black jacket with white stripes down the arms and a white T-shirt last seen in the area of Davis and East Butler roads in Oakland Township.<\/p>\n
The man was last seen on foot and reportedly approached a gas station in the area claiming to have run out of gas.<\/p>\n
State police are advising those in the area to keep their vehicles and doors locked.<\/p>\n
A Butler Eagle reporter was able to confirm with officers at the scene the search was still underway shortly before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Butler barracks at 724-284-8100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for an individual in the area of Fared Drive in Oakland Township. According to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[29620,23991,50448,50463,50468,50469,1986,50452,38884,723,50451,50456,33098,50467,50462,50450,19826,50455,50449,50457,23,7922,50460,100,143,145,144,10238,14167,50461,6136,50453,50465,50464,50454,3306,50459,50458,50466],"class_list":["post-141321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}