{"id":130590,"date":"2026-03-05T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:11:05","slug":"scranton-police-ask-for-helping-locating-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130590\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police ask for helping locating missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton police are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a missing person.\u00a0Christian Michael Wirth, 30, was last seen in November and reported missing on Feb. 27, according to a Scranton Police Department release.<\/p>\n<p>Wirth is described as 6 feet tall and weighing about 205 pounds.\u00a0He was known to frequent the area of the St. Francis of Assisi kitchen on Penn Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>He has been entered in the National Crime Information Center database as missing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Scranton Police Detective Phillips at mphillips@scrantonpa.gov or by calling the police desk at 570-348-4134. Anonymous tips can be reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/cityprotect.com\/forms\/scrantonpa.gov\/anonymous?lang=en-US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cityprotect.com\/forms\/scrantonpa.gov\/anonymous?lang=en-US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police caution people not to approach Wirth but to immediately report having seen him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a missing person.\u00a0Christian Michael Wirth, 30, was last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-130590","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-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130590","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=130590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}