{"id":134824,"date":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134824\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","slug":"scranton-woman-facing-felony-charges-including-aggravated-assault-and-child-endangerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134824\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton woman facing felony charges including aggravated assault and child endangerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A Scranton woman is facing multiple felony charges following her arrest in late January, according to court records filed in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Zakia Patterson, 50, was arrested January 31 and charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children and unlawful restraint of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show Patterson is accused of attempting to cause serious bodily injury or acting with extreme indifference to human life. She is also charged with unlawfully restraining a minor in a manner that allegedly created a risk of bodily injury, as well as child endangerment related to her role as a parent or guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson was arraigned earlier this month and bail was set at $50,000 unsecured, which has been posted. The case remains active and is currently awaiting a preliminary hearing scheduled for March 18 before a magisterial district judge in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding the allegations have not yet been released in the public docket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton woman is facing multiple felony charges following her arrest in late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-134824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134824","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=134824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}