{"id":315771,"date":"2026-10-28T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315771\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:20:09","slug":"warrant-issued-for-man-police-say-tried-to-lure-a-child-into-his-car-in-pittsburghs-crafton-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315771\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrant issued for man police say tried to lure a child into his car\u00a0in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Crafton Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is wanted tonight after Pittsburgh Police say he tried to lure a girl into his car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Raequan Troutman, 21, is accused of trying to get the 10-year-old girl into his car while she waited for the school bus in the morning on October 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This happened at Woodlow and Crucible Streets in the city\u2019s Crafton Heights neighborhood. It\u2019s home to dozens of families and kids who live at the Mountain View housing complex. It\u2019s also just blocks away from Pittsburgh Classical Academy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 10-year-old girl told police she was waiting at the bus stop when a man now identified as Raequan Troutman pulled up to her not once, but twice in his black Dodge Durango. She told police he asked her for a ride and circled the area. Police say surveillance video from the area corroborates her story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Within days, detectives went to Troutman\u2019s home. According to court documents, he told police the Durango is his dad\u2019s and that \u201che was not driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.\u201d Police say he also told them he \u201ccould not provide any names of who may have been driving at the time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to court documents, police say the girl was able to identify Troutman in a photo array. When asked how certain she was, police say she answered \u201c100 percent.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Neighbors say they\u2019ll be keeping a closer eye on kids in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cTeach them what to do &#8211; yell, scream, run,\u201d Judith Spagnolo tells Channel 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Now that a warrant has been issued, this woman had this to say to Troutman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cYou need to turn yourself in and take accountability for what you\u2019ve done.\u201d <\/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 man is wanted tonight after Pittsburgh Police say he tried to lure a girl into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":["post-315771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wpxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315771","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=315771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}