{"id":118033,"date":"2026-02-19T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118033\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:27:07","slug":"two-pittsburgh-men-arrested-and-charged-after-drug-investigation-and-police-chase-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118033\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pittsburgh men arrested and charged after drug investigation and police chase in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Pittsburgh men are now charged in Ohio after a drug investigation ended with one of them ramming multiple police vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the East Palestine Police Department, 27-year-old Micah Barnes and 24-year-old Jaiden Curtis-Tillman were both arrested after a chase and crash during a suspected drug delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes was driving the vehicle when he purposefully rammed four East Palestine police cruisers and proceeded to flee from the scene in the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While police did not pursue him and Curtis-Tillman, they then wrecked the car and fled on foot in an effort to evade arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curtis-Tillman was taken into custody after he was removed from the vehicle, but Barnes was able to flee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple law enforcement agencies took part in a massive search, including the Pennsylvania State Police, Chippewa Township Police Department, Mahoning County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s drone team, and the East Palestine police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were able to locate Barnes and take him into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes is being held in Pennsylvania and awaiting transportation back to Ohio, and Curtis-Tillman is being held in the Columbiana County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes is facing charges of assault on a peace officer, failure to comply, drug trafficking, possessing weapons under disability, and possession of criminal tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curtis-Tillman is being charged with obstructing official business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Pittsburgh men are now charged in Ohio after a drug investigation ended with one of them ramming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20372,2555,293,73,75,74,480],"class_list":["post-118033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-drug-bust","tag-east-palestine","tag-ohio","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police-chase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118033","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=118033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}