{"id":141006,"date":"2026-03-17T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:50:07","slug":"new-jersey-man-assaulted-officer-at-u-of-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141006\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey man assaulted officer at U of S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 A 21-year-old West Orange, New Jersey man kicked an officer in groin and spit in his face Saturday, police charge.<\/p>\n<p>University of Scranton Police responded to a report of three men fighting on the second flood of\u00a0Montrone Hall, 915 Mulberry St., around 4:21 p.m., according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were uncooperative and refused to leave the property. Police identified one man as Gregory Hilton.<\/p>\n<p>Two friends attempted to leave with\u00a0Hilton, but he refused and continued to yell and argue with police. Officers took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton refused to comply with commands at police headquarters and spit in the face of Thomas Cadugan, the university\u2019s chief of police, before kicking him in the groin, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Hilton with aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer, defiant trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 24 at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 A 21-year-old West Orange, New Jersey man kicked an officer in groin and spit in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-141006","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\/141006","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=141006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141006\/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=141006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}