{"id":101218,"date":"2026-01-31T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:26:06","slug":"narcotics-investigation-leads-to-child-sexual-abuse-material-arrest-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101218\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcotics investigation leads to child sexual abuse material arrest \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton police investigating a man for narcotics found he was in possession of a copious amount of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit and Detective Bureau conducted a narcotics investigation of Donald Clark, 62, of Scranton, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers learned Clark was in possession of child sex abuse materials that depicted indecent contact with children. The images were illegal, police noted.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested Clark on Jan. 20.\u00a0He is charged with 50 felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $40,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled 10:45 a.m. on Feb. 2 before District Judge Sean Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police investigating a man for narcotics found he was in possession of a copious amount of child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101219,"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-101218","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\/101218","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=101218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}