{"id":270312,"date":"2026-08-22T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:14:09","slug":"police-standoff-closes-pennsylvania-avenue-nw-near-national-gallery-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270312\/","title":{"rendered":"Police standoff closes Pennsylvania Avenue NW near National Gallery of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Police%20standoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police barricade situation<\/a> remained ongoing Saturday near the <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/National%20Gallery%20of%20Art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Gallery of Art <\/a>after a suspect fled into an apartment building while officers were serving a <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Search%20warrant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">search warrant<\/a>, D.C. police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began around 8:33 a.m. in the west end of the 2400 block of <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Pennsylvania%20Avenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania Avenue NW<\/a>, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police standoff closes Pennsylvania Avenue NW near National Gallery of Art (Credit: Bradley Newman)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/32e6c0da-acea-4f2a-b417-7c849451c329-IMG_1522.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police standoff closes Pennsylvania Avenue NW near National Gallery of Art (Credit: Bradley Newman)<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/weather\/first-alert-weather-blog\/saturday-rainy-interruptions-sunday-turnaround-washington-dc-weather-saturday-rain-thunderstorms-flash-flood-risk-i95-southern-maryland-showers-sunday-sunshine-lower-humidity-weekend-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DC Weather: Rainy interruptions on Saturday with a Sunday turnaround<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of MPD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Violent%20Crime%20Suppression%20Division\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Violent Crime Suppression Division<\/a> were serving a warrant when the suspect ran from officers and entered the building, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said there is no threat to the public, but vehicle and pedestrian traffic remains closed in both directions in the 2400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police standoff closes Pennsylvania Avenue NW near National Gallery of Art (Credit: Bradley Newman)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/62a77a0b-ef71-4d78-b11e-d20948726c14-IMG_1874.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police standoff closes Pennsylvania Avenue NW near National Gallery of Art (Credit: Bradley Newman)<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 A police barricade situation remained ongoing Saturday near the National Gallery of Art after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-270312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270312","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=270312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}