{"id":40306,"date":"2025-11-21T04:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40306\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:26:06","slug":"pittsburgh-police-sergeant-convicted-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-2021-facing-new-dui-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40306\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police sergeant convicted in hit-and-run crash in 2021 facing new DUI charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh Police sergeant is now on paid leave after Plum Borough Police say he was driving drunk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11\u2019s Rich Pierce is working to learn more about the suspect, who was previously charged and convicted for hitting a Channel 11 reporter in a crash and then fleeing the scene years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Tune in to Channel 11 News at 11 p.m. to learn how he ended up with charges for a second time. <\/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\">\u00a92025 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 Pittsburgh Police sergeant is now on paid leave after Plum Borough Police say he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13737,18837,24417,24419,24415,24420,73,75,74,745,24414,24422,24418,24421,24416],"class_list":["post-40306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-dui","tag-dui-charges","tag-dui-officer-charged","tag-dui-police-officer","tag-officer-charged-with-dui","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-pittsburgh-police-dui","tag-pittsburgh-police-officer-accused-of-driving-under-the-influence","tag-pittsburgh-police-officer-dui-charged","tag-pittsburgh-police-sergeant-charged-with-dui","tag-police-officer-charged-with-dui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40306","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=40306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}