{"id":83095,"date":"2022-03-18T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-arrested-following-hit-and-run\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:47:35","slug":"man-arrested-following-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-arrested-following-hit-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested following hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Friday morning after a Thursday night hit-and-run in a downtown grocery store parking lot, police announced.<\/p>\n<p>Randal Benc, 36, was arrested on charges of first-degree assault and action of operator after an accident, <a href=\"https:\/\/juneau.org\/police\/jpd-psa-individual-view\/entry\/82883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Juneau Police Department<\/a>. The arrest came after a traffic stop on Crest Street. Benc was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:26 p.m. on Thursday police received a report that a vehicle had struck a pedestrian in the Foodland IGA parking lot, and that a Dodge pickup truck left the scene after striking the pedestrian, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a 26-year-old man who police did not identify, was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital before being medevaced to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect vehicle was located Friday morning, a traffic stop was conducted and an arrest was made at that time, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <em>Contact the Juneau Empire newsroom at (907)308-4895.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Friday morning after a Thursday night hit-and-run in a downtown grocery store parking lot, police announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":83096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-83095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83095"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=83095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}