{"id":116375,"date":"2026-02-17T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116375\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:39:07","slug":"man-leads-police-on-interstate-chase-from-new-york-to-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116375\/","title":{"rendered":"Man leads police on interstate chase from New York to Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chase ended near mile marker 191 on I-81 south in Scranton Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A police chase that started in New York State ended in the Electric City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers in New York responded to reports of gunfire when the suspect fled the scene, leading police on a chase from I-81 south in New York through Susquehanna County and into Lackawanna County, nearly causing multiple crashes and striking a tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were eventually able to stop the suspect&#8217;s vehicle with a &#8216;PIT&#8217; maneuver near mile marker 191 on I-81 south in Scranton, taking the driver into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not yet released the suspect&#8217;s identity, but say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chase ended near mile marker 191 on I-81 south in Scranton Tuesday morning. LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-116375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116375","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=116375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}