The driver of a stolen SUV led police on a high-speed chase over the weekend through West Reading and across the Buttonwood Street Bridge before entering a wooded area along the Schuylkill River Trail in Reading, where the pursuit ended, state police said.<\/p>\n
The incident began shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday when troopers from the Reading station attempt to stop the vehicle, a 2004 Toyota RAV4, in the 1100 block of Parkside Drive North in Wyomissing.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was confirmed to be stolen from Laureldale, they said.<\/p>\n
The driver disregarded the emergency lights and sirens, accelerating and continuing eastbound through West Reading.<\/p>\n
After entering the city via the Buttonwood Street Bridge, the RAV4 went into a wooded area near West Green and Tulpehocken streets.<\/p>\n
Police terminated a vehicle pursuit. Troopers and city officers canvassed the area but could not locate the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Troopers said the occupants of the SUV are believed to be armed.<\/p>\n
An investigation continues.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the suspects or vehicle should is asked to call state police at 610-621-8630.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a stolen SUV led police on a high-speed chase over the weekend through West Reading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,5250,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706,707,133],"class_list":["post-300130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-laureldale","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-west-reading","tag-wyomissing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300130","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=300130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}