SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 17-year-old has been arrested following an armed robbery and reported shooting incident in Scranton.<\/p>\n
Police say officers were called to the 700 block of Pittston Avenue Monday evening for reports of gunfire. Around the same time, authorities learned of a robbery at a nearby convenience store.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the suspect entered the US Mini Mart with a handgun, took money from the register, and ran from the scene. Officers quickly located a person matching the description and took the suspect into custody after a brief foot chase.<\/p>\n
During the incident, police say gunfire was exchanged, but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Officers recovered a handgun believed to have been used in the incident, as well as stolen items. Surveillance footage helped confirm the suspect\u2019s identity, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Authorities also say the juvenile may be connected to a similar robbery at the same store earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The suspect is facing multiple charges, including robbery and firearms-related offenses. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 17-year-old has been arrested following an armed robbery and reported shooting incident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-146922","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\/146922","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=146922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}