{"id":234340,"date":"2026-07-03T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234340\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:17:22","slug":"massachusetts-truck-driver-charged-in-crash-that-killed-pennsylvania-state-police-trooper-along-interstate-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234340\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts truck driver charged in crash that killed Pennsylvania State Police trooper along Interstate 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CASS TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A truck driver from Massachusetts is facing charges in a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/pennsylvania-state-police-trooper-killed-crash-interstate-81\/19430511\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash that killed a Pennsylvania state trooper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A judge arraigned 33-year-old Michael Bon in Schuylkill County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shows officers wheeling him out of the state police barracks in the borough of Frackville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say Bon crashed a tractor trailer that he was driving into Trooper Michael Pahira around 7 a.m. on Wednesday in Cass Township, Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19431585_070126-wpvi-Michael-Pahira-img.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tpr. Pahira was inspecting a different tractor trailer along I-81 with his emergency lights activated at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bon faces several charges including homicide by vehicle and is being held on $700,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Pahira, 44, was assigned to Troop L, Frackville and had been with the state police for 20 years.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASS TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A truck driver from Massachusetts is facing charges in a crash that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101153,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-234340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-101153","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234340","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=234340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}