{"id":202922,"date":"2026-05-26T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:21:08","slug":"exeter-man-arrested-after-stolen-car-chase-ends-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202922\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter man arrested after stolen car chase ends in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Faundez was arraigned on multiple charges after stealing a car and leading police on a chase Tuesday morning in Scranton. <\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A man is behind bars after stealing a car and leading police on a chase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The car was reported stolen to the Olyphant Police Department on Monday night. The next morning, police in Scranton spotted the car, but it quickly took off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The car was found after it crashed in Dunmore&#8217;s Green Ridge section, but the driver, Sergio Faundez, 36, of Exeter, was not inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, Faundez was found by police and taken into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned and charged with receiving stolen property, fleeing an officer, and related charges. He&#8217;s locked up at the Lackawanna County Prison after not being able to post $30,000 bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Faundez was arraigned on multiple charges after stealing a car and leading police on a chase Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-202922","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\/202922","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=202922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}