{"id":696023,"date":"2026-06-10T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:26:09","slug":"police-arrest-man-suspected-of-running-into-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696023\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man suspected of running into police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of running into and dragging a police officer in Massachusetts has been arrested in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Hector Rivera was taken into custody without incident Wednesday in Plaistow.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the morning, police had identified Rivera as the man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/lawrence-massachusetts-police-officer-struck-car\/71542195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suspected of driving a car<\/a> into Officer Ariel Cruz in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night, seriously injuring him.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was conducting a traffic stop and had taken the driver of the car into custody for having a revoked license. That&#8217;s when Rivera, who has two active warrants, allegedly jumped from the passenger seat into the driver&#8217;s seat and started to drive away, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Cruz tried to stop Rivera but was hit and dragged for two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was flown to a Boston hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>Sources told News 9 Investigates the vehicle believed to have hit Cruz was found in Plaistow hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence police said several law enforcement agencies, including Plaistow police, Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service, worked together to find and arrest Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>A News 9 crew saw a large police presence Tuesday night outside a Rite Aid in Plaistow, along with a car being towed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of running into and dragging a police officer in Massachusetts has been arrested in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11357,4,450,6906,40841,18276,10112,20267,451,301584,301587,59627,6135,301580,243843,2001,20460,2804,3,301582,15622,301586,9585,301585,301241,301581,301583,71999,15681,301579,44672,452,453,58122,7157,10129],"class_list":["post-696023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-app","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-car","tag-custody","tag-download","tag-driver","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-hector-rivera","tag-incident-wednesday","tag-lawrence","tag-man","tag-mass-incident","tag-mass-police-officer","tag-massachusetts","tag-morning","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-news9-investigates","tag-nh","tag-officer-ariel-cruz","tag-official","tag-passenger-seat","tag-plaistow","tag-plaistow-late-tuesday-night","tag-plaistow-police","tag-police-officer","tag-route","tag-same-car","tag-source","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-traffic-stop","tag-update","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}