{"id":240985,"date":"2026-07-11T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240985\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:13:07","slug":"pittsburgh-officer-taken-to-hospital-after-being-poked-by-a-used-needle-during-traffic-stop-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240985\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Officer taken to hospital after being poked by a used needle during traffic stop \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 A Pittsburgh Police Officer was taken to the hospital early Saturday morning after he was pricked by a used needle during a traffic stop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, police were called for a man passed out in a vehicle around 2:20 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers conducted a field sobriety test and the man said he had some drug paraphernalia in the car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">While an officer was searching the vehicle that was when he was pricked in the thumb by a needle in the front console. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The officer went to the hospital for evaluation and to do blood tests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The man from the traffic stop will be charged by summons since there wasn\u2019t enough evidence to charge him with DUI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh Police Officer was taken to the hospital early Saturday morning after he was pricked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1874,16569,4738,78381,9317,20520,9375,79,347,31,8567,784,1879,749,7358,4788,1021,742,1856,783,73,75,74,206,4046,2581,14076,220,30444,7368,7369],"class_list":["post-240985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accident","tag-attention","tag-background","tag-barricade","tag-barrier","tag-blurred","tag-caution","tag-city","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-crime-scene","tag-criminal","tag-danger","tag-downtown","tag-flashing","tag-generic","tag-investigation","tag-law","tag-law-enforcement","tag-murder","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-police-lights","tag-scene","tag-sheriff","tag-shooting","tag-tape","tag-urban","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240985","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=240985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}