{"id":180474,"date":"2026-04-30T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:32:07","slug":"2-in-custody-after-fleeing-springfield-police-crashing-in-lower-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180474\/","title":{"rendered":"2 in custody after fleeing Springfield police, crashing in Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are in custody Thursday after fleeing police and crashing in Lower Merion from an incident that began in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous officers from Lower Merion, Haverford, Springfield and Marple police descended on the intersection of City and Lancaster avenues about 12:30 p.m. after a white Jeep SUV crashed into a fence and light structure as police were following them from an incident in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>After the crash, the pair ran toward Saunders House Nursing and Rehabilitation with police giving chase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two were apprehended and there were no injuries. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)\" width=\"4032\" height=\"371\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1975.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1795004\" \/>Two were apprehended and there were no injuries. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n<p>One subject was quickly captured with the second taken into custody near the helipad at Lankenau Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Springfield police Chief Jeffrey Shull confirmed at the scene that two suspects were in custody and there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A second subject was taken into custody by the Lankenau Medical Center helipad. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)\" width=\"3322\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DTD-L-LANKENAU-0501.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1795005\" \/>A second subject was taken into custody by the Lankenau Medical Center helipad. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n<p>The chief said an update will be released as detectives piece together the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are in custody Thursday after fleeing police and crashing in Lower Merion from an incident that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[197,202,212,182,183,185,184,186,200,139,28,19159,210],"class_list":["post-180474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-bucks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-springfield-township","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180474","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=180474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}