{"id":241255,"date":"2026-07-11T22:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T22:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:43:34","slug":"pittsburgh-police-officer-hospitalized-after-coming-into-contact-with-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241255\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police officer hospitalized after coming into contact with needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittsburgh police officer has been hospitalized after coming into contact with a needle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were initially called for a man who was found passed out in a vehicle. While officers were conducting field sobriety tests, the man said he had drug paraphernalia inside the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An officer searching the vehicle was pricked in the thumb by a needle in the front console, according to a Pittsburgh police spokesperson. He went to an area hospital for evaluation and to undergo necessary blood tests.<\/p>\n<p>The man found inside the vehicle will be charged by summons, as there wasn&#8217;t enough evidence to arrest him at the scene for DUI, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh police officer has been hospitalized after coming into contact with a needle. Officers were initially called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,745],"class_list":["post-241255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241255","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=241255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}