{"id":185605,"date":"2026-05-06T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185605\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:54:31","slug":"pittston-man-charged-with-fleeing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185605\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston man charged with fleeing police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittston man is facing a felony fleeing charge after police say he sped away from a traffic stop last month.<\/p>\n<p>David William Nelson, 54, is accused of fleeing the traffic stop in the 4100 block of North Township Boulevard on the night of April 8.<\/p>\n<p>According to state police, Nelson was driving a Dodge Nitro when he fled police in the vehicle, which he subsequently abandoned when he ran off on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson was arrested April 20 following an investigation, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with a felony count of fleeing and eluding along with multiple summary traffic violations.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson remains free on his own recognizance pending trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittston man is facing a felony fleeing charge after police say he sped away from a traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,2485,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-185605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittston","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185605","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=185605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}