{"id":123008,"date":"2026-02-25T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123008\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:10:07","slug":"roads-in-lower-merion-township-pennsylvania-blocked-near-st-josephs-university-for-police-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123008\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania blocked near St. Joseph&#8217;s University for police activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large police presence is on the scene in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, as officers investigate an unspecified incident on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Several police vehicles and a tent can be seen near Old Lancaster Road and City Avenue, and caution tape is blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lower-merion-pennsylvania-investigation.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lower-merion-pennsylvania-investigation.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>This area is adjacent to St. Joseph&#8217;s University campus and is on the border of Philadelphia and Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>There are street closures around the area due to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Merion police posted on Facebook early Wednesday morning, telling residents that &#8220;the incident is contained and there is no threat to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large police presence is on the scene in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, as officers investigate an unspecified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,652,186,28],"class_list":["post-123008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-police-department","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123008","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=123008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}