{"id":11538,"date":"2018-06-06T06:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:53:52","slug":"us-police-arrest-soldier-after-stolen-armoured-vehicle-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/06\/06\/us-police-arrest-soldier-after-stolen-armoured-vehicle-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"US police arrest soldier after stolen armoured vehicle chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A soldier in the US has been arrested after stealing an armoured military vehicle and leading police on a two-hour chase through a busy city.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was taken from the Ford Pickett National Guard base in Virginia on Tuesday and was driven at speed through the state capital, Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted on social media showed more than a dozen police cars in pursuit of the personnel carrier, which was not equipped with any weapons.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or crashes were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic chase came to an end when the driver drove the vehicle on to a central reservation and was surrounded by police, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>In a news conference, police spokeswoman Sergeant Keeli Hill told reporters that the suspect was then tasered and later identified as a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The military vehicle &#8211; which is not a tank &#8211; was driven at a maximum speed of about 40mph (65kmh),&#8221; she said, adding that it belonged to the Virginia National Guard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/embed\/p0698n5n\/44380794\" width=\"750\" height=\"445\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-44380794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A soldier in the US has been arrested after stealing an armoured military vehicle and leading police on a two-hour chase through a busy city. The vehicle was taken from the Ford Pickett National Guard <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/06\/06\/us-police-arrest-soldier-after-stolen-armoured-vehicle-chase\/\" title=\"US police arrest soldier after stolen armoured vehicle chase\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,3],"tags":[5193,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-11538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-usa","10":"tag-richmond","11":"tag-virginia","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11542,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions\/11542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}