{"id":141952,"date":"2026-03-18T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:06","slug":"new-jersey-man-jailed-for-u-of-s-police-assault-and-firearm-related-charges-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141952\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey man jailed for U of S police assault and firearm-related charges in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A New Jersey man is being held in Lackawanna County following his arrest on multiple serious charges, including allegations involving a firearm and an assault on law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, 21-year-old Gregory Oliver Hilton of West Orange was taken into custody March 14 by University of Scranton police.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Hilton is facing several charges, including aggravated assault and assault of a law enforcement officer involving the discharge of a firearm. Additional charges include trespassing, disorderly conduct, and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released details about the circumstances leading to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton was arraigned and is currently being held at the Lackawanna County Prison after failing to post $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 24 as the case moves forward through the court system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A New Jersey man is being held in Lackawanna County following his arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-141952","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\/141952","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=141952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}