{"id":268378,"date":"2026-08-19T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268378\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:24:07","slug":"solon-fugitive-wanted-on-sexual-assault-charges-arrested-at-philadelphia-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268378\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon fugitive wanted on sexual assault charges arrested at Philadelphia International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WABI) &#8211; A Solon man wanted on sexual assault charges is in custody after police say he tried to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customs and Border Protection officers say they arrested 41-year-old Matthew Thomas Cooley on Sunday at the Philadelphia International Airport before he could board a flight to Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooley was wanted by the Somerset County Sheriff\u2019s Office on charges of sexual assault, domestic violence stalking, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities say Cooley tried to pepper spray an officer during the arrest, leading to additional charges of assaulting an officer and refusing to submit to arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooley was turned over to Pennsylvania police and is awaiting extradition back to Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WABI) &#8211; A Solon man wanted on sexual assault charges is in custody after police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113152,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-268378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hannaford","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268378","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=268378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}