{"id":74241,"date":"2025-12-31T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:28:08","slug":"philadelphia-man-charged-with-attempting-to-lure-teenage-girl-into-truck-in-upper-darby-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74241\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia man charged with attempting to lure teenage girl into truck in Upper Darby, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia man was charged with attempting to lure a teenage girl into his truck in Upper Darby Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/Report\/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-32246-CR-0000315-2025&amp;dnh=WpjtPb1tywE7UlmIpM6YFg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to court documents.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dwayne Austin was charged with stalking and luring a child into a motor vehicle on the 8200 block of West Chester Pike in Upper Darby, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Tuesday that Austin was following a 13-year-old girl in a white Dodge Ram pickup truck Monday and attempted to lure her into his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to Upper Darby police, the girl sought help and safely reached a nearby business, where an adult intervened and confronted Austin. He then fled the area but was eventually arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin was taken to Delaware County Prison on $40,000 bail. He posted bail Tuesday at 10% with $4,000, according to a criminal docket sheet. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Austin or similar incidents involving the white Dodge Ram pickup truck is urged to contact the Upper Darby Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man was charged with attempting to lure a teenage girl into his truck in Upper Darby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,69,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-74241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74241","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=74241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}