{"id":58674,"date":"2026-11-03T01:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=58674"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:54:27","slug":"man-arrested-after-crashing-into-police-cruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/man-arrested-after-crashing-into-police-cruiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Crashing Into Police Cruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58675\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/man-arrested-after-crashing-into-police-cruiser\/andrew-mapendo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?fit=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Andrew Mapendo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?fit=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-58675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=125%2C125 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=125%2C125 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><br \/>\nLouisville police officers arrested a man accused of crashing into a cruiser while driving drunk.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Louisville Metro Police Department said it happened around 7 p.m. Sunday while the officer was taking a report on a crash near 1st Street and Badger Avenue, just west of the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>A department spokesperson said 42 year-old Andrew Mapendo didn\u2019t see the officer and hit the officer and his car.<\/p>\n<p>Mapendo stopped after the crash, and police believe he was intoxicated at the time. He was charged with DUI, wanton endangerment, reckless driving, third-degree assault and more.<\/p>\n<p>The officer hit was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.<br \/>\nSource: WDRB+WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville police officers arrested a man accused of crashing into a cruiser while driving drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":58675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-main-news","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-fgm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-11-13 20:13:43","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[69],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Andrew-Mapendo.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58676,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions\/58676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}