{"id":144057,"date":"2026-03-20T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144057\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:07","slug":"police-scranton-man-threatens-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144057\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Scranton man threatens girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scranton man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and threatening in text messages to kill her, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mata, 25, of 537 N. Garfield Ave., faces charges of harassment and making terroristic threats.<\/p>\n<p>Shania McMillan told officers that the two had been arguing on Feb. 22, which escalated into Mata slapping her on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>She showed officers screen shots of texts Mata sent to her, which included threats such as \u201cI\u2019ll kill you today\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t make me homicidal,\u201d according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Mata remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on March 30 before District Judge Sean McGraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and threatening in text messages to kill her, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46923,"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-144057","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\/144057","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=144057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}