A 61-year-old homeless man faces charges after attacking another homeless man with a bamboo stick on Saturday in Scranton, police said.<\/p>\n
The investigation began when Officer Erica Haines responded to Dunkin\u2019, 100 Mulberry St., around 6:54 a.m. after a man walked into the store with blood on his face, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical personnel told Haines that the male \u2014 Charles Parks \u2014 had been assaulted by another homeless male \u2014 later identified as Miles Nolen \u2014 and suffered lacerations on his face, bruising, and a large hematoma on the back of his head, police said.<\/p>\n
Haines noted Parks \u2014 who was breathing heavily and barely able to carry on a conversation \u2014 told police a male named Miles showed up at his tent earlier in the morning and started beating him with a stick and yelling at him for allegedly sleeping with Nolen\u2019s girlfriend, officers said.<\/p>\n
Parks \u2014 who was transported to Regional Hospital of Scranton for treatment of his injuries \u2014 told officers he doesn\u2019t bother anyone and doesn\u2019t speak with Nolen\u2019s girlfriend, police said.<\/p>\n
When Haines spoke with Parks at the hospital about Nolen\u2019s location, he was still unable to have a productive conversation and complained of rib pain and\u00a0difficulty breathing, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
A doctor advised Haines that Parks had broken ribs and a collapsed lung, and would need a chest tube inserted, officers said.<\/p>\n
After police located Nolen\u2019s tent near the Mulberry Street bridge, he told officers he went to Parks\u2019 tent and struck him with a bamboo stick for sleeping with his girlfriend, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Police observed blood on the front of Parks\u2019 tent, and on the ground nearby, officers said.<\/p>\n
Officers took Nolen into custody and charged him with\u00a0aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday, Nolen remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 24 at 10:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old homeless man faces charges after attacking another homeless man with a bamboo stick on Saturday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"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-140935","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\/140935","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=140935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}