{"id":136429,"date":"2026-03-12T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:53:06","slug":"state-police-investigate-possible-neglect-case-at-lackawanna-county-group-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136429\/","title":{"rendered":"State police investigate possible neglect case at Lackawanna County group home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police in Dunmore are investigating a suspected neglect case involving a 63-year-old woman at a group home in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>According to a public information release, troopers were notified on March 5 by the Lackawanna County Area on Aging about concerns at the Beacon Group Home on Joni Drive in Spring Brook Township.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the agency had begun looking into a potential neglect situation after an elderly resident was removed from the facility and taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center. The woman is currently being treated in the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. Jason Traino is leading the investigation. No additional details have been released, and authorities say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police in Dunmore are investigating a suspected neglect case involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-136429","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\/136429","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=136429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}