{"id":219555,"date":"2026-06-15T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219555\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:55:04","slug":"warrant-pennsylvania-man-points-revolver-at-onslow-county-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219555\/","title":{"rendered":"WARRANT: Pennsylvania man points revolver at Onslow County deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after warrants show he pointed a gun at an Onslow County deputy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">83-year-old R Edward Leshinski was arrested by Onslow County deputies yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to warrants, deputies were investigating a report of a reckless or impaired driver when Leshinski revealed and pointed a revolver at a deputy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The documents say Leshinski was refusing to comply after the deputy asked him to leave the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leshinski was reportedly drinking alcohol while holding the gun, warrants say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leshinski was arrested and charged with assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, carrying a firearm while consuming, assault by pointing a gun, and resisting a public officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was taken to the Onslow County Jail and was denied bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leshinski is scheduled to appear in court today. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after warrants show he pointed a gun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95679,95680,95681,28,30,29,95678,72175],"class_list":["post-219555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-onslow-county","tag-onslow-county-jail","tag-onslow-county-sheriffs-office","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-r-edward-leshinski","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219555","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=219555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}