{"id":76707,"date":"2026-01-03T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76707\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:01:11","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-carjacking-woman-then-stealing-philadelphia-police-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76707\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after carjacking woman, then stealing Philadelphia police vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 21-year-old man is in custody after a carjacking in West Philadelphia led to a police chase and the theft of a patrol vehicle Friday night, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The carjacking happened just after 6:30 p.m. near Race and Robinson streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the woman driving the vehicle was able to get out safely as the suspect took off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The car was equipped with OnStar, a tracking system that allowed officers to locate it and pursue the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chase ended when the suspect crashed at Frankford and Adams avenues in the Frankford section of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He fled on foot, but during the pursuit, police say he doubled back, jumped into a police cruiser, and drove off.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01150a559f78fb42400163c178230de0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect stopped the stolen cruiser in a driveway on the 900 block of Arrott Street, police say, where he abandoned the vehicle and ran behind nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken into custody shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not released the suspect&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman who was carjacked was not hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man is in custody after a carjacking in West Philadelphia led to a police chase and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34268,39485,69,71,70,480,23867,877],"class_list":["post-76707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-carjacking","tag-patrol-vehicle","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police-chase","tag-police-cruiser","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76707","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=76707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}