{"id":107820,"date":"2026-02-07T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:54:09","slug":"pennsylvania-man-sentenced-over-high-speed-pursuit-drug-possession-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107820\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man sentenced over high-speed pursuit, drug possession | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Sentencing, image of gavel\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"782\" height=\"437\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>TOWANDA, PA. (WENY) \u2014 A Towanda man could spend the next 19 years behind bars after he was sentenced for leading police on a high speed chase.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Johnson, 33, was sentenced on charges of Burglary, Evading Arrest on Foot, Fleeing and Eluding, Possession with Intent to Deliver and Recklessly Endangering Another Person.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged after an apparent police chase the began in Athens before ending in Candor. The chase reached speeds of over 100 miles per hour at some points.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson will be required to serve a minimum sentence of almost 5 years, but could serve a maximum of 19. The Bradford County District Attorney&#8217;s office says he has a lengthy criminal history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: AP TOWANDA, PA. (WENY) \u2014 A Towanda man could spend the next 19 years behind bars after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[296,139,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-107820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820","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=107820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}