{"id":184362,"date":"2026-05-05T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:43:06","slug":"police-kids-13-12-stole-car-initiated-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184362\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Kids, 13 &#038; 12, stole car, initiated pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE \u2014 Wilkes-Barre City police on Tuesday released information regarding the theft of a vehicle by two children who initiated a pursuit that ended in Lackawanna County on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the 400 block of Scott Street when a person, delivering newspapers, reported his Honda CR-V was stolen just before 6 a.m. May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Police spotted the vehicle on Coal Street where the driver was operating the Honda erratically and initiated a pursuit, passing thought a red traffic signal at Coal Street and Wilkes-Barre Boulevard. The pursuit continued on state Route 309, Route 29, Route 6 and Route 11 where it came to an end near Keystone College in La Plume, Lackawanna County, with assistance by the Pennsylvania State Police that disabled the Honda, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 13-year-old girl from Wilkes-Barre was the driver and a 12-year-old boy from Plains Township was a passenger. The girl was transported to a local hospital while the boy was taken to Wilkes-Barre City Police Headquarters after the pursuit ended.<\/p>\n<p>Police say criminal charges are pending as the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WILKES-BARRE \u2014 Wilkes-Barre City police on Tuesday released information regarding the theft of a vehicle by two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-184362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184362","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=184362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}