{"id":127709,"date":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127709\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","slug":"5-illegal-guns-confiscated-during-2-pittsburgh-traffic-stops-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127709\/","title":{"rendered":"5 illegal guns confiscated during 2 Pittsburgh traffic stops \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 Two traffic stops by violence prevention detectives in Pittsburgh over the weekend resulted in the recovery of five illegal guns, according to public safety officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The first traffic stop happened on outbound 279 on the Veterans Bridge. Two 17-year-olds were arrested when detectives found two stolen guns while searching the vehicle, one of which was equipped with a full-auto selector switch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The second stop took place at Becks Run Road and Wagner Street in the South Side. Officials say the driver was arrested for possessing a full-auto Glock pistol. Then a search of a vehicle led to investigators recovering two AR-pistols, crack cocaine and cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials say that driver, identified as Deshawn Livingston, now faces multiple firearms and narcotics charges. The teens were not identified and it wasn\u2019t immediately clear what, if any, charges they faced. <\/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":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Two traffic stops by violence prevention detectives in Pittsburgh over the weekend resulted in the recovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6427,59495,20950,11009,6328,40209,18407,5553,59494,73,75,74,4602,59493,17925,14293,59492,59496],"class_list":{"0":"post-127709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-6427","9":"tag-becks-run-road","10":"tag-crack-cocaine","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-glock","13":"tag-guns","14":"tag-illegal-guns","15":"tag-narcotics","16":"tag-pistols","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-south-side","21":"tag-switch","22":"tag-traffic-stop","23":"tag-veterans-bridge","24":"tag-violence-prevention","25":"tag-wagner-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709","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=127709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}