{"id":135537,"date":"2026-02-16T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135537\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:55:26","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-in-plattsburgh-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135537\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect in Plattsburgh hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A New York man faces charges for a hit-and-run collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/14\/police-looking-suv-involved-hit-run-plattsburgh\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/14\/police-looking-suv-involved-hit-run-plattsburgh\/\">It happened Thursday evening on Ampersand Drive in Plattsburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York State Police say Terry VanValkenburg, 54, of West Chazy, struck a woman in a motorized wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say their investigation led them to a green 2008 Jeep operated by VanValkenburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say they arrested VanValkenburg on Sunday and that he now faces felony charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victim is being treated at the UVM Medical Center and was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A New York man faces charges for a hit-and-run collision. It happened Thursday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-135537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}