{"id":39449,"date":"2025-11-14T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:55:08","slug":"charged-in-2-hair-raising-pursuits-crash-on-staten-island-expressway-driver-takes-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39449\/","title":{"rendered":"Charged in 2 hair-raising pursuits, crash on Staten Island Expressway, driver takes plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Nov. 14, 2025, 9:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 14, 2025, 9:30 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"SIE\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/OINRJVTI4RHXRPTE7RASPETBHQ.png\"  \/>The defendant was arrested in connection with two chases on the Staten Island Expressway. Here, an expressway entrance is shown in a file photo.(Staten Island Advance\/Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4SMZWBZDT5CXRLHNMRIMEDWN7Q\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A West Brighton man charged with leading NYPD officers on multiple hair-raising pursuits across Staten Island has entered a guilty plea to resolve his latest case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Q2BP45XIAJBOFKWEVJACLMDYRY\">Luis Valdez, 27, of Mundy Avenue, pleaded guilty this week to a charge of driving a stolen vehicle in connection with a December 2024 incident. In exchange for his plea, he is scheduled to be sentenced to 90 days in jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Nov. 14, 2025, 9:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 14, 2025, 9:30 a.m.The defendant was arrested in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-39449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39449","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=39449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}