{"id":283078,"date":"2026-09-10T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283078\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:52:11","slug":"chucky-mask-suspect-extradited-from-las-vegas-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283078\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chucky&#8217; mask suspect extradited from Las Vegas to Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV)  \u2014 The man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/nation-world\/police-identify-suspect-zymire-hughes-wearing-chucky-style-mask-accused-of-terrorizing-philadelphia-pennsylvania-threatening-comment-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wearing a mask to terrorize people in Philadelphia<\/a> has been extradited from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Municipal Court records show Zymire Hughes, 22, was being held at the city jail, Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, as of Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was arrested in Las Vegas last month for two warrants out of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Marshals Service said Hughes was wanted by Philadelphia Police for &#8220;terrorizing citizens&#8221; in the Center City neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Police accused him of approaching multiple people while wearing a mask similar to the horror character Chucky. In one instance, he allegedly chased a jogger, asking her, &#8220;Do you want to die?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following his arrest, <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/philadelphia-chucky-mask-suspect-las-vegas-court-appearance-zymire-hughes-crime-lvmpd-us-marshals-nevada-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hughes appeared before a Las Vegas judge<\/a> and confirmed he would waive extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Court records from Philadelphia show Hughes faces seven criminal counts, including terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another person. <\/p>\n<p>A bail review hearing is scheduled for Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The man accused of wearing a mask to terrorize people in Philadelphia has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-283078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283078","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=283078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}