{"id":524907,"date":"2026-01-18T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524907\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:22:25","slug":"large-police-presence-temporarily-shuts-down-part-of-i-17-in-north-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524907\/","title":{"rendered":"Large police presence temporarily shuts down part of I-17 in north Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Part of a busy Phoenix-area freeway was shut down for a couple of hours Saturday night due to unknown police activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Details are extremely limited. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Around 7 p.m. on Saturday, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said they were investigating a crash with minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Because of the crash, the northbound lanes of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/g6ypb8uBUn2GgSJUA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/g6ypb8uBUn2GgSJUA\">Interstate 17 near Pinnacle Peak Road<\/a> were shut down. They fully reopened around 9:15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">DPS said there was an incident that began off the freeway, which resulted in the crash happening on I-17. It is unclear what that incident was, but it has prompted a large police presence at the scene of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Part of a busy Phoenix-area freeway was shut down for a couple of hours Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":524908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,49853,1587,7182,131686,4903,26470,36752,113714,1589,7183,17042,314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-524907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-department-of-public-safety","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-backup","tag-crash","tag-delays","tag-dps","tag-i-17","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-police","tag-traffic","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115915610283472238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524907","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=524907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}