{"id":144668,"date":"2026-03-21T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144668\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:01:08","slug":"teen-charged-after-police-say-driver-fled-traffic-stop-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144668\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after police say driver fled traffic stop in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A 19-year-old man is facing charges after state police say he fled from a traffic stop in Scranton earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pennsylvania State Police, troopers attempted to pull over a vehicle on March 14 near Rockwell Avenue and School Street for alleged traffic violations. Investigators say the driver refused to stop and sped away.<\/p>\n<p>Police later identified the driver as Michael Naegele of Clarks Summit and filed charges related to fleeing and eluding.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the incident involved a 2019 BMW and identified a 45-year-old Scranton man as the victim in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are pending in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 19-year-old man is facing charges after state police say he fled from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-144668","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\/144668","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=144668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}