{"id":174657,"date":"2026-04-24T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:28:22","slug":"police-id-man-accused-of-intentionally-driving-car-into-police-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174657\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID man accused of intentionally driving car into police headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA man accused of intentionally driving an SUV into the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s\u00a02nd District headquarters was identified Wednesday as\u00a0Dieufort Joly of Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was traveling southbound on Castor Avenue at around 1:40 p.m. Tuesday before sharply turning and crashing into the front of the Northeast Philly building on the 7300 block of Castor Avenue, causing \u201cextensive damage&#8221; and injuring six people.\u00a0The motive remains under investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/red-cross-blood-donations-gift-cards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Cross is offering gift cards to encourage spring blood donations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAfter the incident, the driver exited his vehicle and walked onto the street where police apprehended him. He was brought to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital for medical treatment and released into police custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six people in the lobby awaiting police assistance at the time of the collision suffered minor injuries from debris. Police said there is \u201cextensive damage, but not structural damage\u201d to the building.<\/p>\n<p>\nPolice Commissioner Kevin Bethel called the crash an \u201cabsolute deliberate act\u201d during a <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/car-crashes-philadelphia-police-district-building-rhawnhurst\/18934883\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> conference Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nJoly\u00a0has a Haitian passport,\u00a0lives in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood and\u00a0had no prior arrest record in Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner said Wednesday.\u00a0Before the crash Tuesday, officers had been dispatched to report to a domestic dispute between Joly and his father over the sale of a car and the possibility of returning to Haiti, Krasner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joly was charged with six counts of aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and related charges. His bail was set at $1.7 million, and he was also ordered to surrender his passport.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary court hearing is scheduled for May 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of intentionally driving an SUV into the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s\u00a02nd District headquarters was identified Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2694,33764,693,336,2327,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":{"0":"post-174657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-investigations","11":"tag-larry-krasner","12":"tag-northeast-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-philadelphia-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174657","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=174657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}