{"id":255953,"date":"2026-07-31T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:19:10","slug":"arrest-made-in-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-conyngham-native-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255953\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in hit-and-run crash that killed Conyngham native in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An arrest was made Thursday in connection with the hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of Hazleton Area graduate and Temple University student Bryce Wolfe last month.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Marshals Service in Philadelphia said 48-year-old Derek Reid was taken into custody Thursday. Details regarding the charges Reid faces were not released.<\/p>\n

Police said Reid was also wanted in connection with the rape of a child.<\/p>\n

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Wolfe, 20, was killed in a collision at the intersection of Kelly and Reservoir drives around 11:15 p.m. on June 24. Police said the driver of the SUV was traveling eastbound and after realizing a U-turn could not be completed, entered the path of Wolfe traveling westbound on his 2004 Triumph motorcycle.<\/p>\n

Police said the motorcycle struck the SUV, trapping Wolfe underneath.<\/p>\n

The driver fled the scene and dragged Wolfe for more than one mile until he became dislodged in the area of Fountain Green Drive.<\/p>\n

Wolfe was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 4:41 a.m. on June 25, police said. Wolfe was wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n

Wolfe just completed his sophomore year as an actuarial science major within the Fox School of Business and was enrolled in the Temple and Fox honors programs. He was a recipient of both the Provost\u2019s Academic Scholarship and the Fox School of Business Endowed Scholarship.<\/p>\n

Wolfe graduated from Hazleton Area in 2024, was a state award winner in Future Business Leaders of America and competed with his brother, Tyler, in the school\u2019s unified sports program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest was made Thursday in connection with the hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of Hazleton Area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88638,202,182,803,139,28,69,1212,71,70,6519],"class_list":["post-255953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-conyngham","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-county","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories-hzs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255953","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=255953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}