{"id":85741,"date":"2026-01-13T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:58:08","slug":"early-morning-police-pursuit-ends-in-pittsburghs-uptown-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85741\/","title":{"rendered":"Early-morning police pursuit ends in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Uptown neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning police pursuit in Swissvale ended in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Uptown neighborhood, about a half mile away from UPMC Mercy near Forbes and Jumonville Street.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began on Monongahela Avenue in Swissvale before continuing onto the Parkway East and down off the Boulevard of the Allies, prompting a response from Pennsylvania State Police, Swissvale police, and Pittsburgh police around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to Swissvale Police Chief Charles Watson.<\/p>\n<p>One officer initially identified the vehicle and attempted to stop the driver because the officer believed the suspect had warrants related to a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Watson said there were multiple attempts to stop the vehicle on or around the day before Tuesday, which was involved in a pursuit in West Mifflin.<\/p>\n<p>Swissvale police attempted to stop the vehicle before the driver tried to flee, striking an unmarked Swissvale patrol car. The driver then crashed in Pittsburgh and fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-13.png#.png\" alt=\"download-13.png \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Swissvale police attempted to stop the vehicle before the driver tried to flee, striking an unmarked Swissvale patrol car. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA-TV<\/p>\n<p>KDKA-TV saw a Ford Expedition with airbags deployed, towed away on the back of a truck, while what appeared to be an unmarked police car was on the back of a second tow truck, too.<\/p>\n<p>After using a drone from Mount Lebanon police, authorities found the alleged suspect on the roof of a building before taking him into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early morning police pursuit in Swissvale ended in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Uptown neighborhood, about a half mile away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,480],"class_list":["post-85741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police-chase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741","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=85741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}