{"id":103341,"date":"2026-02-02T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:28:27","slug":"wilkinsburg-man-accused-of-kidnapping-woman-driving-her-to-bank-to-withdraw-money-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103341\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinsburg man accused of kidnapping woman, driving her to bank to withdraw money \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Wilkinsburg man is facing charges in connection with an alleged kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to Pittsburgh police, 34-year-old Jermaine Turner kidnapped a woman he knew between Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say Turner drove the woman to a bank to withdraw money, but she told employees to call police. Turner allegedly fled, and the woman was taken to a hospital with severe facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives arrested Turner in the 7300 block of Monticello Street on Friday afternoon. Police say he had a gun on him at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Turner is charged with aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, robbery, robbery of a motor vehicle, terroristic threats, simple assault, persons not to possess a firearm and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He\u2019s being held at the Allegheny County Jail, and online court records show he\u2019s been denied bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Wilkinsburg man is facing charges in connection with an alleged kidnapping. According to Pittsburgh police,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50025,50024,50022,73,75,50021,74,50027,50026,50023],"class_list":["post-103341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bank-kidnapping","tag-forced-to-withdraw-money","tag-man-kidnapped","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-kidnapping","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wilkinsburg-kidnapping","tag-wilkinsburg-kidnappingh","tag-woman-kidnapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}