{"id":86140,"date":"2026-01-14T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:26:15","slug":"man-crashes-into-police-cruiser-leads-officers-on-high-speed-chase-into-pittsburgh-officials-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86140\/","title":{"rendered":"Man crashes into police cruiser, leads officers on high-speed chase into Pittsburgh, officials say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 One person was taken into custody following a massive police presence in Pittsburgh\u2019s Uptown neighborhood that stemmed from an incident in Swissvale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to the criminal complaint, Dale Lamar Jackson\u2019s license plate was picked up by a plate reader as Jackson had a warrant out for his arrest. Police say they attempted a traffic stop with Jackson, who then crashed his car into an officer\u2019s patrol vehicle. Jackson reportedly led police on a chase, at one point driving 110 miles per hour in the Squirrel Hill tunnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jackson allegedly brought police to the city\u2019s Uptown neighborhood along Jumonville Street, where police say Jackson jumped out of his car and ran on foot down Tustin Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Drones later tracked Jackson to a rooftop just above the officers. According to the criminal complaint, Jackson walked to the edge of the roof and ignored police commands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jackson reportedly jumped off the roof and onto the ground, where police brought Jackson into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say Jackson carried a bag that contained heroin and cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jackson is now facing 29 charges, including fleeing police, resisting arrest and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 One person was taken into custody following a massive police presence in Pittsburgh\u2019s Uptown neighborhood that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17128,4523,869,43099,43100,42120,139,859,73,75,74,6995,43097,10939,43102,11664,43098,43101,420,860],"class_list":["post-86140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny_county_jail","tag-bluff","tag-channel_11","tag-dale_lamar_jackson","tag-dumontville_street","tag-jackson","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rachel_pierce","tag-squirrel_hill_tunnel","tag-swissvale","tag-swissvale_police_department","tag-swissville","tag-swissville_police_department","tag-tustin_street","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140","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=86140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}