A Scranton woman is accused of threatening a man with a knife after he asked her to turn down the heat on the stove,\u00a0according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
At about 9 a.m. on Monday, officers were called to 314 New St. for the report of a woman threatening other tenants of the apartment building.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived they found the suspect, Patricia Kochan, 54, sitting on the front porch of the residence. They recognized Kochan from previous incidents and arrested her.<\/p>\n
Scranton firefighters checked the residence and found there was no fire and no fire risk.<\/p>\n
Christopher Moore told officers Kochan had been in a shared kitchen area cooking, with the stove at a high temperature, and he was concerned. He\u00a0asked her to turn down the heat because the stove was beginning to smoke.<\/p>\n
Kochan got angry, grabbed a knife, raised it above his head and told Moore, \u201cIf you come near me, I\u2019ll kill you. I\u2019ll stab you,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Witness Steve Ives told police he had seen Kochan holding the knife above her head and threatening to stab Moore.<\/p>\n
Police charged Kochan with making terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n
Officers noted the knife used in the incident wasn\u2019t recovered. They believe it had been concealed before police arrived, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on March 23 before District Judge Sean McGraw.<\/p>\n
Kochan remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton woman is accused of threatening a man with a knife after he asked her to turn…\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],"class_list":["post-135555","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\/135555","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=135555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135555\/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=135555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}