{"id":1310,"date":"2024-03-21T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:48:27","slug":"pitt-sheriff-greenville-man-arrested-following-checkpoint-and-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/pitt-sheriff-greenville-man-arrested-following-checkpoint-and-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt Sheriff: Greenville man arrested following checkpoint and chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/authors\/David.Giordano\/\">Dave Jordan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -The Pitt County Sheriff\u2019s Office says a Greenville man who fled from a checkpoint and led law enforcement on a chase, was arrested and charged with numerous crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office and NC Highway Patrol conducted the checkpoint Saturday night on Old River Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say 29-year-old Darrius Montine Ward, Jr. entered the checkpoint, but then refused to follow commands and drove away at a high rate of speed leading to a chase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ward\u2019s vehicle was located behind a residence on John Brown Court and was seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ward was charged with six offenses, including resisting, delaying, and obstructing an officer and felony flee to elude arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was taken to the Pitt County Detention Center and released after posting a $15,000 secured bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Dave Jordan GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -The Pitt County Sheriff\u2019s Office says a Greenville man who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydrummedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}