Lackawanna County is conducting an internal investigation involving members of the county sheriff\u2019s office, county Solicitor Paul James Walker confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n
The investigation began recently, he said, noting it \u201cwould be unfair and unreasonable to provide any greater level of detail\u201d at this point.<\/p>\n
Officials have not disclosed the subjects of the investigation or the nature of the conduct being investigated. It was not immediately clear whether a criminal investigation involving members of the sheriff\u2019s office is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Reached by phone Thursday, Sheriff Mark McAndrew said he couldn\u2019t comment on the personnel matter. County spokesman Joe D\u2019Arienzo said the same. Efforts to reach county Chief of Staff Brian Jeffers were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n
Efforts to reach county District Attorney Brian Gallagher were unsuccessful Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n
The state Attorney General\u2019s Office told the newspaper in a Thursday email: \u201cWe do not have any commentary on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County is conducting an internal investigation involving members of the county sheriff\u2019s office, county Solicitor Paul James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-144009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144009","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=144009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}