{"id":52933,"date":"2025-12-05T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:02:08","slug":"owner-of-stolen-box-truck-chases-after-thief-in-downtown-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52933\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of stolen box truck chases after thief in Downtown Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh Public Safety said the owner of a stolen box truck in Downtown Pittsburgh chased the person who stole his vehicle and even caught up with that person at a red light.The incident happened a little before 1 p.m. Thursday.Investigators said the owner of the box truck had gotten out to make a delivery and later watched someone drive off with the vehicle.That owner ran after the vehicle, caught up with it at a red light, and then began to fight the person who was behind the wheel.Investigators said the thief then allegedly rammed the truck into nearby trees and almost hit a pedestrian.No one was hurt.Pittsburgh Public Safety said charges are pending.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Public Safety said the owner of a stolen box truck in Downtown Pittsburgh chased the person who stole his vehicle and even caught up with that person at a red light.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened a little before 1 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the owner of the box truck had gotten out to make a delivery and later watched someone drive off with the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>That owner ran after the vehicle, caught up with it at a red light, and then began to fight the person who was behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the thief then allegedly rammed the truck into nearby trees and almost hit a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Public Safety said charges are pending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Safety said the owner of a stolen box truck in Downtown Pittsburgh chased the person who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29877,31,4578,4623,2582,455,29879,1827,12120,29880,1020,1358,73,75,74,6975,206,29878,29841,6967,29881],"class_list":{"0":"post-52933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-box-truck-chase","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-delivery","11":"tag-downtown-pittsburgh","12":"tag-incident","13":"tag-investigator","14":"tag-nearby-tree","15":"tag-new-this-morning","16":"tag-owner","17":"tag-p-m-thursday","18":"tag-pedestrian","19":"tag-person","20":"tag-pittsburgh","21":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","22":"tag-pittsburgh-news","23":"tag-pittsburgh-public-safety","24":"tag-police","25":"tag-red-light","26":"tag-thief","27":"tag-vehicle","28":"tag-wheel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933","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=52933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}