{"id":74797,"date":"2025-12-31T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:51:07","slug":"man-in-stolen-u-haul-leads-police-on-hours-long-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74797\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in stolen U-Haul leads police on hours-long pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju4wlj5003k01vbzjidhudq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Authorities in Bensalem arrested a man on Tuesday after he stole a U-Haul truck and crashed into multiple civilian and patrol vehicles during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1334067758748341&amp;set=pcb.1334068618748255\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven-hour police pursuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju5ssox00323b7upzikdsqq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Around 8:30 a.m., police received a report of a stolen U-Haul truck that hit a car, then fled. Investigators identified the offending driver as 38-year-old Ryan Laskowski, of Bristol Township, and issued a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju5ssxl00333b7uvvskqk76@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">However, over the course of seven hours, Laskowski hit several other vehicles. Officials said he returned to the area of the initial hit-and-run throughout the day, during which he struck a Pennsylvania State Police patrol car and multiple other cars.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju5st1q00343b7u4eikx4w5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">As police vehicles chased Laskowski in the U-Haul, authorities said he intentionally hit a \u201cBensalem Police Department patrol unit, a fence and a fire hydrant\u201d near the ACME grocery store on Bristol Road.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju5st2h00353b7usoslotph@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Laskowski was apprehended a couple miles away after he crashed into another car. The occupants of that car sustained minor injuries, as did Laskowski.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmju5st4e00363b7u9symbr1s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Once he is released from the hospital, he will be formally arraigned on multiple charges, including felony fleeing and eluding, theft of a motor vehicle, and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Bensalem Township Police Department\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Authorities in Bensalem arrested a man on Tuesday after he stole a U-Haul truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-74797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74797","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=74797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}