{"id":233894,"date":"2026-07-02T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233894\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:45:11","slug":"procession-for-pa-state-police-trooper-goes-through-berks-on-way-to-final-resting-place-in-schuylkill-schuylkill-county-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233894\/","title":{"rendered":"Procession for Pa. State Police trooper goes through Berks on way to final resting place in Schuylkill | Schuylkill County Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; The body of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael Pahira is headed home Thursday afternoon, after departing from Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>The procession comes one day after the trooper was struck and killed while conducting a commercial vehicle safety inspection on Interstate 81.<\/p>\n<p>The procession departed from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township around noon.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very solemn day for law enforcement as they escort a fellow brother to a funeral home in Schuylkill County. A long line of law enforcement vehicles carried Trooper Michael Pahira to his final resting place.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Trooper Michael Pahira Jr.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4674b7df26b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pahira was killed after he was conducting a commercial safety inspection on the side of the road in Cass Township Shuylkill County. Pahira was hit Wednesday morning by an out of state tractor trailer, driven by a Massachusetts man, who is now charged with vehicular homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The procession carrying his body left Lehigh Valley Hospital Jefferson&#8217;s Cedar Crest, taking I-78 West through Lehigh and Berks counties to Route 61 North into Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n<p>The procession&#8217;s final stop is the Sullivan Funeral Home in Frackville.<\/p>\n<p>The procession was expected to take just over an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; The body of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael Pahira is headed home Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[101005,9509,1645,101004,1224,128,130,129,8620,26329],"class_list":["post-233894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-frackville-barracks","tag-fraternal-order-of-police","tag-interstate-81","tag-motor-carrier-inspection","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-trooper","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233894","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=233894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}