{"id":147003,"date":"2026-03-24T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:49:08","slug":"teen-faces-charges-after-armed-robbery-gunfire-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147003\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen faces charges after armed robbery, gunfire in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old faces robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, and related firearm offenses.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A teen faces charges after an armed robbery in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 17-year-old man armed with a handgun robbed a mini mart along the 700 block of Pittston Avenue just before 6 p.m. Monday, and fired shots at another person while fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officers caught the suspect shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have also connected the suspect to a robbery at the same mini mart back in February.<\/p>\n<p>The teen has not yet been identified but faces robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, and related firearm offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old faces robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, and related firearm offenses. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-147003","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\/147003","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=147003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}