West Reading police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying a motorcyclist who allegedly fled from officers during a traffic stop attempt last month.<\/p>\n
According to the West Reading Police Department, officers attempted to stop a blue and black motorcycle for careless driving at approximately 7 p.m. on May 27 in the 500 block of Penn Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police said the motorcycle, described as a Yamaha naked-style sport bike, did not stop and instead fled the area.<\/p>\n
The driver was described as a thin male with short black hair, a black mustache and beard, and tattoos on his left arm and left leg.<\/p>\n
The incident is being investigated as a fleeing and eluding case. The department listed the case as an active criminal investigation under reference number 38-26-05437.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the driver or motorcycle is encouraged to submit an anonymous tip through the West Reading Police Department\u2019s online tip system, contact Crime Alert Berks County at 1-877-373-9913, or submit a text tip to Crime Alert Berks County by texting 847411 and beginning the message with \u201cALERTBERKS\u201d followed by the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Reading police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying a motorcyclist who allegedly fled from officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-220098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220098","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=220098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}