{"id":262581,"date":"2026-08-10T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:34:46","slug":"berks-county-man-arrested-at-new-jersey-airport-after-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262581\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County man arrested at New Jersey airport after fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berks County man arrested at New Jersey airport after fatal shooting<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8\" aria-label=\"Brian Roche profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8_1654040425.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Roche\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Berks County man was arrested at a New Jersey airport Sunday night while attempting to board a flight to the Dominican Republic, hours after a fatal shooting in Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Federico Perez Polanco is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a 32-year-old man around 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/33c41fd0-2653-4b5b-8fac-cf9ed88241e4.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/33c41fd0-2653-4b5b-8fac-cf9ed88241e4.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police said Perez Polanco fled to New Jersey after the shooting and booked a flight scheduled to depart that night.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">A coordinated effort involving the U.S. Marshals Service, the TSA, and the Port Authority Police Department of New York and New Jersey led to his arrest.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Authorities have not released the victim&#8217;s identity or details about what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County man arrested at New Jersey airport after fatal shooting A Berks County man was arrested at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[111031,59971,13323,4829,109622,42933,111030,128,130,129,13305,13132],"class_list":["post-262581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arrested-at-a-new-jersey-airport","tag-berks-county-man","tag-dominican-republic","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-federico-perez-polanco","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-port-authority-police-department","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-tsa","tag-u-s-marshals-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262581","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=262581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}