A Scranton man was found \u201ccovered in blood\u201d with a bleeding head wound after being attacked by five people at an Academy Street lounge early Sunday, Wilkes-Barre police said.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched to the MofonLounge Mofongo Mocano at 120 Academy St. at 6:50 a.m. Sunday to a report of an assault. However, everyone police contacted at the scene denied knowledge of any assault taking place, police said.<\/p>\n
About a half hour later, police were dispatched to the 100 block of Old River Road, where they found the 33-year-old Scranton man bleeding from his head.<\/p>\n
The man, who was not identified, was \u201ccovered in blood\u201d and had a cut on the top of his head, police said.<\/p>\n
The victim reported having been inside the lounge playing billiards when five unknown men approached him and began assaulting him with various objects.<\/p>\n
Police said the attackers chased the man outside and continued assaulting him as he escaped from the area.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to an area hospital for emergency treatment, police said.<\/p>\n
No charges had been immediately filed. Police said the assault remained under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man was found \u201ccovered in blood\u201d with a bleeding head wound after being attacked by five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802,2685],"class_list":["post-103880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103880","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=103880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}