City police attempting to arrest a Scranton man after he stole food from a supermarket Jan. 26 were met by an uncooperative suspect who tried to retreat back into his house, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Because it was his third retail theft offense, John\u00a0 Sweeney, 41, of 1029 Oak St., was charged with a felony, police said.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, officers were called to Gerrity\u2019s on North Keyser Avenue for the report of retail theft.<\/p>\n
Dispatchers informed officers a man, later identified as Sweeney, fled and headed toward Oak Street, but they could not find him.<\/p>\n
A manager at the store told officers Sweeney was caught on camera hiding three hoagies under his coat.<\/p>\n
Supermarket staff provided officers with Sweeney\u2019s address \u2014 gleaned from the customer loyalty card he used \u2014 but not his name.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to identify Sweeney through his address at 1029 Oak St.\u00a0As police were en route, dispatchers informed them Sweeney had a warrant out for his arrest.<\/p>\n
When Sweeney answered the door, police informed him they were there to take him into custody on the warrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ain\u2019t going nowhere with you guys,\u201d Sweeney said, and attempted to retreat inside his residence, according to police.<\/p>\n
When officers attempted to put Sweeney in handcuffs, he resisted and refused to put his hands behind his back. But he was eventually placed in handcuffs.<\/p>\n
Sweeney also faces misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $1,500 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Feb. 3 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City police attempting to arrest a Scranton man after he stole food from a supermarket Jan. 26 were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-101032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}