{"id":207116,"date":"2026-05-31T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:37:29","slug":"flock-cameras-help-police-find-stolen-van-arrest-suspect-after-chase-in-erie-county-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207116\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock Cameras Help Police Find Stolen Van, Arrest Suspect after Chase in Erie County | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"FLOCK CAMERA.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>New Flock cameras near the Millcreek Mall helped police locate a stolen van and identify a suspect in a case that later led to a pursuit through Erie County earlier this month, according to a news release posted Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police said troopers were assisting the Conneaut Police Department on May 11 in the search for a stolen 2013 Chevrolet Astro van. The van had been stolen the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators used the Flock cameras at the Millcreek Mall to help find the van, which was located unoccupied behind the TownPlace Suites by Marriott near the mall, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the cameras also helped identify a suspect. That investigation later led to a multi-department high-speed pursuit through Erie County and the arrest of Joseph Arciuolo, 39, of Erie.<\/p>\n<p>State police said Arciuolo is accused of stealing more than five vehicles, breaking into multiple vehicles and stealing items from inside, and burglarizing sheds and other structures.<\/p>\n<p>Charges filed by State Police in Girard include receiving stolen property and multiple counts of fleeing and eluding. Troopers from the Erie station also filed multiple counts of theft of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Arciuolo remains behind bars in the Erie County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Flock cameras near the Millcreek Mall helped police locate a stolen van and identify a suspect in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1646,136,142,138,137,3849,206,91003],"class_list":["post-207116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-arrest","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-flock-cameras","tag-police","tag-stolen-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207116","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=207116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}