{"id":3700,"date":"2025-10-16T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3700\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:01:18","slug":"bensalem-bucks-co-man-chased-another-man-with-knife-tried-to-run-him-over-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3700\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem, Bucks Co. man chased another man with knife, tried to run him over: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A Bensalem man was arrested after allegedly pulling a knife on another man before trying to run him over with his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bensalem police responded to Bristol Pike and Red Lion Road around 4:10 p.m. on Saturday for a report of a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When they arrived, the victim told police that a man he did not know pulled up next to him in a red GMC SUV and began yelling at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim told police the man then got out of the vehicle with a large knife and began chasing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When the man could not catch the victim, he got back into his SUV and allegedly tried several times to run the victim over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The SUV spun its tires and did circles, trying to strike the victim before it finally took off northbound on Bristol Pike, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The entire incident was captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver was identified by police as 66-year-old Jeffrey Santucci of Bensalem.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeffrey Santucci\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16554205_santucci2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Santucci<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said they believe Santucci may have been motivated by jealousy of a woman that the victim was dating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was arrested and is being charged with Aggravated Assault, Simple Assault, Reckless Endangerment of Another Person, and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">His bail was set at $75,000 unsecured and Santucci has since been released from custody.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A Bensalem man was arrested after allegedly pulling a knife on another man before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3389,191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-3700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-3389","9":"tag-bensalem","10":"tag-bensalem-headlines","11":"tag-bensalem-news","12":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","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=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}