{"id":141825,"date":"2026-03-18T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:21:06","slug":"jessup-man-jailed-on-multiple-charges-after-alleged-attempt-to-evade-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141825\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessup man jailed on multiple charges after alleged attempt to evade police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lackawanna County man is behind bars after authorities say he attempted to flee from police, leading to multiple criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, 44-year-old Jason Patrick Fuhr of Jessup is facing felony charges of fleeing or attempting to elude an officer and flight to avoid apprehension, along with a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from an incident earlier this month. Details about the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident were not included in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Fuhr was arraigned March 11 and is currently being held at the Lackawanna County Prison after failing to post $40,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Court records also show Fuhr has a prior criminal history, including a 2025 case involving drug-related charges that was forwarded to county court, as well as older cases involving assault, DUI, and fleeing police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released additional details as the case moves through the court system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lackawanna County man is behind bars after authorities say he attempted to flee from police, leading to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-141825","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\/141825","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=141825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}