{"id":284008,"date":"2026-09-11T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284008\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:58:17","slug":"15-year-old-accused-of-threatening-police-with-knife-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284008\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old accused of threatening police with knife in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers tase 15-year-old who allegedly threatened them with knife after crash in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789156697_482_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 15-year-old is accused of threatening officers with a knife after crashing a vehicle in downtown Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Pittsburgh police were called to Sixth Avenue and Ross Street around 10 a.m. for a \u2018suspicious vehicle\u2019 that had crashed. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officials say the driver, a 15-year-old, ran from the crash and into the BNY Mellon parking garage. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Authorities say they searched the garage until the 15-year-old eventually came out of the building around Seventh Avenue and Ross Street.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Police say the teenager was tased by officers after they threatened him with a knife. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The 15-year-old faces multiple charges including receiving stolen property (theft of motor vehicle), driving without a license, simple assault &#8211; physical menace, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers tase 15-year-old who allegedly threatened them with knife after crash in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH \u2014 A 15-year-old is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55207,85642,4623,118438,118432,118435,118439,73,75,74,745,18433,6371,89608,1992,26430,50394,118434,118436,118433,118437,8373],"class_list":["post-284008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-15-year-old","tag-bny-mellon","tag-downtown-pittsburgh","tag-driving-without-a-license","tag-knife-threat","tag-officers-tase","tag-physical-menace","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-receiving-stolen-property","tag-resisting-arrest","tag-ross-street","tag-seventh-avenue","tag-simple-assault","tag-sixth-avenue","tag-suspicious-vehicle","tag-tased-by-officers","tag-teen-driver","tag-theft-of-motor-vehicle","tag-vehicle-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284008","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=284008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}