{"id":248540,"date":"2026-07-21T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:29:07","slug":"woman-accused-of-threatening-taxi-driver-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248540\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of threatening taxi driver with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mount Oliver woman is facing kidnapping charges after police say she threatened a taxi driver with a knife. <\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County Police say the driver picked up 26-year-old Mya Owens and her daughter at a downtown Pittsburgh hotel.<\/p>\n<p>During the drive, investigators say Owens pulled out a large kitchen knife, threatened the driver and demanded he take her to Pittsburgh International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was able to get help after arriving at the airport and told an officer what happened. <\/p>\n<p>Police say video from inside the vehicle captured the incident, and the knife was found in the backseat. <\/p>\n<p>Owens is facing kidnapping, unlawful restraint, terroristic threats and corruption of minors charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mount Oliver woman is facing kidnapping charges after police say she threatened a taxi driver with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1646,73,75,74,106052,16409],"class_list":["post-248540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-arrest","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-taxi-driver","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248540","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=248540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}