{"id":144662,"date":"2026-03-21T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144662\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:49:06","slug":"state-police-investigate-reported-sexual-assault-in-newton-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144662\/","title":{"rendered":"State police investigate reported sexual assault in Newton Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWTON TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a reported sexual assault that allegedly occurred early Saturday morning in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, troopers were called to the area of Newton Road around 3:20 a.m. Investigators say a group of individuals, all under the age of 21, had gathered on private property where alcohol was being consumed.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 19-year-old woman from Jefferson Township reported that she was sexually assaulted during the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been released, and investigators have not said how many people were present or whether any suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>State police say the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTON TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a reported sexual assault that allegedly occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-144662","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\/144662","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=144662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}