{"id":325237,"date":"2026-11-11T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325237\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:32:07","slug":"escaped-prisoner-captured-in-easton-pennsylvania-after-hourslong-search-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325237\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped prisoner captured in Easton, Pennsylvania, after hourslong search, state police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An escaped prisoner was captured Tuesday night after an hourslong search in Easton, Northampton County, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Cressman, 42, of Williams Township, fled police around 3:15 p.m. outside court after he was arraigned on strangulation, simple assault and other offenses, according to state police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cressman was spotted by a PSP helicopter along Interstate 78 around 6:30 p.m., state police said. He was then taken into custody. Cressman will face more charges in connection with the escape.<\/p>\n<p>A PSP trooper sustained a minor injury during the incident, according to state police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The escape remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An escaped prisoner was captured Tuesday night after an hourslong search in Easton, Northampton County, according to Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131802,434,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-325237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-escaped-prisoner","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325237","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=325237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}