{"id":284888,"date":"2026-09-13T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284888\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:26:12","slug":"man-wanted-for-armed-carjacking-simple-assault-arrested-by-swat-police-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284888\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted for armed carjacking, simple assault arrested by SWAT, police in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A young man wanted for armed robbery of a motor vehicle was arrested by police and SWAT units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to information shared by Pittsburgh public information officers, SWAT and police served a search warrant at a house on Pritchard Street in Sheraden on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">That is where they arrested Jayon Pridgen, 19, who had two warrants out for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say Pridgen was a suspect in an armed carjacking that happened in Chartiers City and was also wanted for a simple assault charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">New charges were filed after police reported finding an illegal ghost gun inside the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pridgen is being held at the Allegheny County Jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A young man wanted for armed robbery of a motor vehicle was arrested by police and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7011,6889,4738,7012,7013,7014,4029,7015,7016,7017,7018,7019,4813,7020,1681,5609,7021,7022,7023,7024,7025,7026,7027,7028,7029,73,75,74,206,7030,7031,2009,7032,7033,7034,7035,7036],"class_list":["post-284888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-background","tag-beam","tag-beautiful","tag-beauty","tag-black","tag-bright","tag-bulb","tag-color","tag-colorful","tag-concert","tag-design","tag-effect","tag-entertainment","tag-event","tag-flare","tag-flash","tag-glow","tag-illustration","tag-lens","tag-light","tag-magic","tag-optical","tag-party","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-ray","tag-shine","tag-space","tag-splash","tag-stage","tag-star","tag-streaks","tag-sunny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284888","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=284888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}