{"id":126503,"date":"2026-03-01T03:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:59:29","slug":"homestead-man-arrested-after-no-showing-at-court-for-gun-charge-officials-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126503\/","title":{"rendered":"Homestead man arrested after no-showing at court for gun charge, officials say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014 Allegheny County sheriffs\u2019 detectives arrested a Homestead man who they say didn\u2019t show up for court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Damien Higginbotham, 36, had been a fugitive for 45 days after a bench warrant was issued for failing to attend a pre-trial conference on Dec. 15, the sheriff\u2019s office says. The case involved gun and evading arrest charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This week, detectives learned that Higginbotham was in an apartment along Hill Avenue in Wilkinsburg, the office says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives reportedly arrived at the apartment just before noon Friday and heard a man\u2019s voice inside after knocking on the door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A woman let the detectives inside, where they reportedly found Higginbotham in the basement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He was arrested and taken to the Allegheny County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014 Allegheny County sheriffs\u2019 detectives arrested a Homestead man who they say didn\u2019t show up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2225,59054,59053,59056,45034,73,75,74,59057,59055],"class_list":["post-126503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fugitive-arrested","tag-hill-avenue-arrest","tag-homestead-arrest","tag-homestead-fugitive","tag-man-arrested","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sheriff-arrest","tag-wilkinsburg-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503","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=126503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}