A South Abington Twp. man was caught on video choking his wife after finding drugs in her dresser in August, police said.<\/p>\n
Fearing for her safety and the safety of her children, David Albrecht\u2019s wife didn\u2019t immediately report the assault.<\/p>\n
But, after being granted a protection-from-abuse order in March, Stacie Albrecht felt the time was right to take the video recording to police.<\/p>\n
On March 26, she went to the South Abington Twp. Police Department and spoke with Officer Leonard Harvey.<\/p>\n
Stacie Albrecht showed Harvey a video she presented in court during her PFA proceedings. She said the video had been taken in her bedroom on Aug. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n
When asked why it had taken her so long to come forward with the video, she said she was afraid of what her husband would do if she showed the video. That fear, she said, had also prevented her from leaving him until recently.<\/p>\n
Her husband assaulted her after finding drugs in her dresser drawer, she told police.<\/p>\n
He was caught on camera picking her up, throwing her onto the bed, knocking her backward and choking her until she could not talk or breathe. Police could also hear Albrecht threatening to kill his wife on the recording.<\/p>\n
Stacie Albrecht told officers her husband was much bigger than her and she feared for her life and for the safety and lives of her children.<\/p>\n
She told officers she wanted to leave at that time, but her husband took her keys and the children were at home.<\/p>\n
David Albrecht, 40, of 1005 Scott Road, faces a felony charge of strangulation, in addition to misdemeanor counts of making terroristic threats, simple assault and disorderly conduct. He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on April 8 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Abington Twp. man was caught on video choking his wife after finding drugs in her dresser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,6799],"class_list":["post-154681","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","tag-south-abington-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154681","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=154681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}