{"id":489052,"date":"2026-01-03T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:48:20","slug":"man-arrested-after-stealing-philadelphia-police-car-carjacking-woman-and-leading-chase-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489052\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after stealing Philadelphia police car, carjacking woman and leading chase, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody after carjacking a woman at gunpoint, stealing a police vehicle and leading officers on a chase across the city Friday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector D F Pace said a 21-year-old   man stole a black Chevrolet SUV from a woman at gunpoint just after 6:30 p.m., near Race and Robinson streets in West Philadelphia. Pace said the woman told the police the SUV was equipped with OnStar navigation, which allowed officers to track the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers chased the vehicle, with assistance from a helicopter, until it crashed at Frankford and Adams avenues in Philadelphia&#8217;s Frankford neighborhood. The man then fled on foot with officers continuing to chase. In a brazen move, the suspect doubled back to the scene\u00a0 of the crash, jumped into a parked police vehicle and drove off again.<\/p>\n<p>Officers followed the stolen police vehicle to the 900 block of Arrott Street, where the man abandoned the car and ran into a backyard. Officers were able to find him and take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/chopperpic.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Man arrested after stealing Philadelphia police car, carjacking woman and leading chase, police say \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Chopper 3 over the scene as authorities recover a stolen police vehicle Philadelphia&#8217;s Frankford Neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene where officers searched the backyard of that home in Frankford. Pace said the police vehicle was not damaged.  <\/p>\n<p>The woman who was carjacked was not injured and no one was hurt during the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect faces multiple charges. The stolen SUV and police vehicle are being held as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after carjacking a woman at gunpoint, stealing a police vehicle and leading officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,72914,1448,2830,1311,72817,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-489052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-frankford","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-police-chase","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830306282028874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}