{"id":250654,"date":"2026-07-23T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:24:10","slug":"pittsburgh-man-previously-arrested-after-being-found-in-an-attic-arrested-once-again-on-a-bench-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250654\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man previously arrested after being found in an attic arrested once again on a bench warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Allegheny County, PA) Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus announced today that thirty-two-year-old Davon James of Pittsburgh, who was arrested in January of 2026 after being found hiding under insulation in an attic, has been taken<br \/>into custody again on a bench warrant.<\/p>\n<p>James was declared a fugitive earlier this month, and this happened after a bench warrant was issued for a probation violation on a previous firearms charge guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>He also has an active warrant out of the City of Pittsburgh for a strangulation charge that is connected to a domestic violence incident on July 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office developed information this week that James was inside of a residence located on Wynoka Street.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were given permission to search a first-floor apartment but were unable to locate James after arriving at the residence earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>They then went to a common area that was in the basement of the building before noticing a cluttered area under the stairs which led to the basement and saw an arm protruding from underneath a TV set.<\/p>\n<p>After detectives commanded the person to show themselves, James complied.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody without incident and was transported to the Allegheny County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Allegheny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-250654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250654","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=250654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}