{"id":148096,"date":"2026-03-25T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:07:06","slug":"man-charged-with-strangulation-terroristic-threats-in-scranton-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148096\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with strangulation, terroristic threats in Scranton assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A man is behind bars in Lackawanna County following a violent incident that led to multiple charges, including strangulation and terroristic threats.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Scranton police arrested 33-year-old Jermaine Davian Wiggan on March 19. He is accused of assaulting another person and applying pressure to the victim\u2019s throat or neck, which resulted in a felony strangulation charge.<\/p>\n<p>Wiggan is also facing additional charges of terroristic threats, simple assault, and harassment stemming from the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>Following his preliminary arraignment on March 20, bail was set at $25,000. Court documents show Wiggan was unable to post bail and is currently being held at the Lackawanna County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released further details about the circumstances of the alleged assault or the condition of the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A man is behind bars in Lackawanna County following a violent incident that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-148096","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\/148096","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=148096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}