{"id":146466,"date":"2026-03-24T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:26:08","slug":"man-in-custody-after-shots-fired-at-south-scranton-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146466\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after shots fired at South Scranton convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody after shots were fired at a convenience store on Pittston Avenue on Monday evening, according to Scranton Police Chief Tom Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>The masked man entered the US Mini-Mart at 702 Pittston Ave. at about 5:45 p.m. armed with a handgun and approached the store clerk, who was armed with a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>The two exchanged fire but no one was hit, Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled police on foot and was shortly after taken into custody. Both weapons were retrieved.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is still under investigation, Carroll said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after shots were fired at a convenience store on Pittston Avenue on Monday&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-146466","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\/146466","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=146466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146466\/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=146466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}