{"id":4982,"date":"2025-10-17T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4982\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:55:13","slug":"bensalem-police-bring-home-the-bacon-after-elusive-pig-finally-captures-after-a-month-on-the-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4982\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem police bring home the bacon after elusive pig finally captures after a month on the lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Porky is scheduled for a checkup at the Ross Mill Pig Farm in Jamison. Once he passes the exam, he will be available for adoption<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, December 18, 2024<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Runaway pig captured by Bensalem police after a month on the run\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bensalem police can finally say they are bringing home the bacon after trapping a ham that&#8217;s been on the lam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM TWP., Pa.  (WPVI) &#8212; Bensalem police can finally say they are bringing home the bacon after trapping a ham that&#8217;s been on the lam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A little piggy, that has been on the loose for an entire month, has now been captured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/bensalem-township-police-search-pig-loose-bucks-county\/15556946\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Action News has been following the search<\/a> for &#8220;Porky&#8221; the pig.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by Bensalem Police\" 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\/15556971_pig-wanted.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image provided by Bensalem Police<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The elusive swine finally fell for a special trap on Tuesday, near Newport Mews Drive in Bensalem Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Porky is scheduled for a checkup at the Ross Mill Pig Farm in Jamison. Once he passes the exam, he will be available for adoption, not for breakfast.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porky is scheduled for a checkup at the Ross Mill Pig Farm in Jamison. Once he passes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4594,191,193,192,2165,194,4592,4593],"class_list":{"0":"post-4982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-4594","9":"tag-bensalem","10":"tag-bensalem-headlines","11":"tag-bensalem-news","12":"tag-bensalem-police","13":"tag-bensalem-township","14":"tag-pig-captured","15":"tag-pig-on-the-loose"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","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=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}