{"id":270303,"date":"2026-08-22T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:50:08","slug":"pennsylvania-avenue-nw-closed-as-wanted-suspect-barricades-inside-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270303\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Avenue NW closed as wanted suspect barricades inside unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hqv0wnqwaaaatfm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; A section of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest is closed after a wanted suspect barricaded himself inside a unit while police were serving a warrant Saturday morning, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTTG\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MPD\u2019s Violent Crimes Suppression Division was serving a warrant around 8:33 a.m. in the 2400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest when the suspect ran into a unit, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect then barricaded himself inside, according to MPD.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hqv0wnpwgaab2vb.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Road closure <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MPD negotiators are at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 2400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest is closed in both directions to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Police are asking people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hqv0wnowoaau1k5.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTTG\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No additional details about the suspect or the warrant were immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/dc-crime\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D.C. Crime<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; A section of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest is closed after a wanted suspect barricaded himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[592,113977,139,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-270303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dc-crime","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270303","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=270303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}