A 37-year-old Scranton man faces charges after he crashed into a parked vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol, injuring a passenger in his car, police said.<\/p>\n
As officers responded to 300 Birch St. in the city around 1:30 a.m. Sunday for a report of a two-vehicle crash, county dispatchers informed them a male \u2014 later identified as Jose Prieto-Alvario was unresponsive in the roadway, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Officers found a white vehicle in the middle of the road that sustained front-end damage, including a crack on the passenger-side windshield, and saw blood on the passenger-side windshield and window, police said.<\/p>\n
Police discovered\u00a0Jose Prieto-Alvario lying on the ground next to the vehicle and another male \u2014 Jonathan Prieto-Alvario, who officers identified as the driver, kneeling beside him, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Although police said the injuries suffered by Jose Prieto-Alvario appeared non-life-threatening, he may have suffered a severe concussion, which led him to be intubated, officers said.<\/p>\n
He received medical care at the scene before being transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers observed multiple Corona beer bottles scattered in the road among the crash debris, and a witness told police he heard the accident from his nearby residence and watched the driver pull someone from the passenger side of the vehicle, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
While attempting to interview Jonathan Prieto-Alvario, officers noticed he was unsteady on his feet and they detected a strong odor of alcohol coming, police said.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Prieto-Alvario admitted driving the vehicle, but refused to provide details about what led to the collision, officers said.<\/p>\n
Police charged Jonathan Prieto-Alvario, 932 Prospect Ave., with aggravated assault by vehicle, accidents involving death or serious injury, and DUI.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday, he remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 5 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old Scranton man faces charges after he crashed into a parked vehicle while driving under the influence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-122428","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","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122428","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=122428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}