{"id":503,"date":"2025-10-15T01:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:46:13","slug":"3-in-custody-after-pursuit-in-lower-merion-west-philadelphia-prompts-shelter-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/503\/","title":{"rendered":"3 in custody after pursuit in Lower Merion, West Philadelphia prompts shelter-in-place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9163B080A415DD66D838E4FE4888CB3C.jpg\" alt=\"3 in custody after police pursuit prompts shelter-in-place\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Three people were arrested after a police chase in West Philadelphia and Lower Merion Township prompted a shelter-in-place and lockdowns of area schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police say at least one of the suspects was wanted by Philadelphia Police and the FBI in connection with another incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The pursuit began on City Avenue near Bala Cynwyd shortly before noon Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Philadelphia police say two of the suspects were later captured at 52nd and Parrish in West Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lower Merion Police say they arrested the third suspect on Colwyn Lane. That suspect was wanted by the FBI and Philadelphia Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lower Merion Police say they were continuing to search the area in case a fourth suspect remained at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">\u00a0The chase also involved multiple vehicles, and police say the two suspects arrested in Philadelphia were found in a \u2018secondary vehicle\u2019 and that one of the suspects was picked up by the other after the original pursuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The pursuit and ensuing search resulted in lockdowns of several schools in Lower Merion Township, as well as St. Joseph\u2019s University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police have not yet released information about what prompted the original pursuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">None of the suspects have been identified at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Three people were arrested after a police chase in West Philadelphia and Lower Merion Township prompted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[592,183,185,184,186,139],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}