Funeral services were held today at Meadville’s New Beginnings Church of God for 52\u2013year-old Pennsylvania State Police active Trooper Gary Knott before hundreds of fellow troopers, family members and friends.<\/p>\n
The services followed a large motorcade from Knott’s hometown of Conneaut Lake into Meadville.<\/p>\n
Knott passed away in Maryland on August 24th.<\/p>\n
He served on a special interstate highway drug interdiction unit, which annually seizes illegal drugs at traffic stops and on other law enforcement safe highways initiatives.<\/p>\n
As part of the PSP unit known as SHIELD, Knott principally worked on Interstates 79 and 80 from the PSP Mercer station.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his wife Carrie of 32 years and daughters Mariah Mayes and Kalli Knott. Troopers from multiple stations in western Pennsylvania along with municipal law enforcement agencies attended services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Funeral services were held today at Meadville’s New Beginnings Church of God for 52\u2013year-old Pennsylvania State Police active…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,139],"class_list":["post-280754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280754","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=280754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}