{"id":237549,"date":"2026-07-07T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237549\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:21:05","slug":"authorities-stop-car-with-pit-maneuver-after-man-leads-troopers-on-pursuit-on-route-22-in-bethlehem-state-police-say-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237549\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities stop car with PIT maneuver after man leads troopers on pursuit on Route 22 in Bethlehem, state police say | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police are accusing a man of leading troopers on a pursuit along Route 22 in Bethlehem Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, Pennsylvania State Police say troopers conducted a traffic stop on Paulo Silva, 50, who was found to have a warrant for fleeing and eluding.<\/p>\n<p>State police say Silva fled the traffic stop after being informed of the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>After troopers spotted Silva\u2019s vehicle, authorities used a Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) maneuver on Route 22, state police said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities took Silva into custody after his vehicle was brought to a stop, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>State police say troopers took Silva, who had minor injuries, to a local hospital, where he was evaluated and then released.<\/p>\n<p>Silva, who is facing charges, was taken to Lehigh County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police are accusing a man of leading troopers on a pursuit along Route&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1646,153,155,154,40007,1224,86501,20223],"class_list":["post-237549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-arrest","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county-prison","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pit-maneuver","tag-route-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237549","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=237549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}