{"id":143789,"date":"2026-03-20T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143789\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:48:06","slug":"investigation-underway-into-lackawanna-county-sheriffs-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143789\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway into Lackawanna County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 Several people in the Lackawanna County Sheriff\u2019s office are under investigation over alleged violations involving false overtime claims, according to information obtained by FOX56.<\/p>\n<p>Details remain limited, but FOX56 has confirmed that an active investigation is underway into alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of the investigation &#8211; as well as the number of people involved- remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>FOX56 reached out to Commissioners Bill Gaughan, Thom Welby, and Chris Chermak, and Sheriff\u2019s Office Solicitor Larry Moran for comment. As of now, no responses have been received.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Mark McAndrew and County Solicitor Paul Walker both responded to calls from FOX56 but were unable to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Several people in the Lackawanna County Sheriff\u2019s office are under investigation over alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-143789","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\/143789","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=143789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}