{"id":74776,"date":"2025-12-31T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74776\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:29:06","slug":"lorain-man-steals-car-out-of-garage-and-crashes-it-near-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74776\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorain man steals car out of garage and crashes it near Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A Lorain man was arrested and charged after allegedly stealing a car out of a garage and then crashing it near Lake Erie early Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lorain Police Captain Jacob Morris told 19 News that officers responded to a home on the city\u2019s east side after a running car was stolen out of a garage a little after 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shortly after, bystanders called Lorain Police to report that a man had left a car in drive in the parking lot located at 1203 East Erie Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The car then struck a dumpster before running to a rocky cliff near the lake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers arrived and arrested the driver, identified as 46-year-old William Griffin of Lorain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Griffin was charged with breaking and entering, grand theft auto and reckless operation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Morris told 19 News that Griffin was taken to the hospital for reported shortness of breath and will be transported to jail later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lorain Police Traffic Bureau and patrol officers are working to investigate this crash and determine more possible charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A Lorain man was arrested and charged after allegedly stealing a car out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2663,38533,136,138,137,18171,38531,38532],"class_list":{"0":"post-74776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-east-erie","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-lake","14":"tag-lorain-police","15":"tag-william-griffin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776","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=74776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}