{"id":116599,"date":"2026-02-18T00:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116599\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:29:15","slug":"man-leads-police-on-interstate-chase-from-new-york-to-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116599\/","title":{"rendered":"Man leads police on interstate chase from New York to Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A police chase that started in New York State ended in the Electric City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have not yet released the suspect&#8217;s identity, but say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police chase that started in New York State ended in the Electric City on Tuesday. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,237,480,178,180,179,55421,2942],"class_list":["post-116599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-new-york","tag-police-chase","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-suspect-fled-the-scene","tag-susquehanna-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116599","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=116599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}