A Wayne County man is accused of harassing a woman and her attorney as they sat in the waiting room of the Lackawanna County Government Center in Scranton.<\/p>\n
When county deputies approached Salvatore Clemente, 32, he became agitated, refused to comply with their requests and repeatedly bumped into one of them, police say.<\/p>\n
Clemente, of Newfoundland, faces charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, at about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, attorney Catherine Gallagher was conferring with her client at the government center on Wyoming Avenue when Clemente sat down next to the group, staring at her client\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
Because her client didn\u2019t know Clemente, Gallagher asked him to stop staring and said she didn\u2019t want a problem.<\/p>\n
Clemente refused, stating, \u201cI\u2019ll do what I want; I think you\u2019re pretty.\u201d<\/p>\n
After refusing a deputy\u2019s request to move, Clemente shouted harassing statements as Gallagher and her clients moved out of the room.<\/p>\n
Another woman told deputies Clemente was the defendant in her protection-from-abuse case and had violated the order in the hallway by waving at her and taunting her.<\/p>\n
When deputies approached Clemente, he became argumentative and refused to leave the building.<\/p>\n
He then intentionally bumped back into Sgt. Joseph George three times, despite warnings to stop.<\/p>\n
When George attempted to arrest him after the third bump, Clemente pulled away and swiped at the officer\u2019s hands, before deputies arrested him.<\/p>\n
Clemente remains at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on April 1 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wayne County man is accused of harassing a woman and her attorney as they sat in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-143993","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993","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=143993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}