{"id":498016,"date":"2026-10-16T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498016\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:42:44","slug":"police-chase-ends-in-oakland-damaging-cruiser-and-nearby-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498016\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chase ends in Oakland, damaging cruiser and nearby business"},"content":{"rendered":"

A police chase that began outside city limits ended in Oakland, causing damage to a smoke shop and a Pittsburgh police cruiser, with multiple people taken into custody.<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

An early morning police chase ended in North Oakland at Centre Avenue and North Craig Street, leaving damage to a Pittsburgh police cruiser and a nearby smoke shop. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said the pursuit began outside city limits in the eastern suburbs. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh police were not directly involved in the chase, but officials said a Pittsburgh police cruiser was hit by the suspect’s vehicle as an officer attempted to lay a spike strip in the road. <\/p>\n

Officers from both Wilkinsburg and Churchill Police Departments were also at the scene, where multiple people were taken into custody.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, there were no injuries to officers reported.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not said what happened before the chase started, nor which department will lead the investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police chase that began outside city limits ended in Oakland, causing damage to a smoke shop and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[193368,193369,193371,96037,193370,50671,143,145,144,2322,193366,134775,13364,14310,178,193367,173952],"class_list":["post-498016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-centre-avenue","tag-churchill-police-departments","tag-early-morning-police-chase","tag-nearby-business","tag-nearby-smoke-shop","tag-north-craig-street","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-officer","tag-pittsburgh-police-cruiser","tag-pittsburgh-public-safety-official","tag-police-chase","tag-road","tag-vehicle","tag-wilkinsburg","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498016","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=498016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}