{"id":147044,"date":"2026-03-24T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:37:09","slug":"teen-faces-charges-after-armed-robbery-gunfire-in-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147044\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen faces charges after armed robbery, gunfire in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A teen faces charges after an armed robbery in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers caught the suspect shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have also connected the suspect to a robbery at the same mini mart back in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 teen faces charges after an armed robbery in Scranton. Police say a 17-year-old man armed with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8447,40400,178,180,179,66998],"class_list":["post-147044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-armed-robbery","tag-mini-mart","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-teen-faces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147044","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=147044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}