HANOVER TWP., Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police say a man stole a vehicle then led police on a pursuit on Route 22 in Northampton County.<\/p>\n
Authorities are expected to file charges against Yasin Kennedy, 49, of Scranton, state police said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Troopers tried to make a traffic stop on an SUV in the area of Route 22 eastbound in Hanover Township shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday after a stolen vehicle notification, state police said.<\/p>\n
State police said the SUV failed to yield, and a pursuit began.<\/p>\n
After traveling about eight miles, the SUV crashed into a wooded area after failing to negotiate the ramp onto Route 33 north from Route 22 east, according to state police.<\/p>\n
State police said troopers then took Kennedy into custody without further incident. He was brought to Northampton County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER TWP., Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police say a man stole a vehicle then led police on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1646,153,155,154,2121,434,1224,2246,20223,178,22436],"class_list":["post-263933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-arrest","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-hanover-township","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-police-pursuit","tag-route-22","tag-scranton","tag-vehicle-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263933","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=263933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}