{"id":155511,"date":"2026-04-02T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:22:07","slug":"man-faces-child-porn-charges-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155511\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces child porn charges in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malinauskas is charged with 100 counts of possession of child sexual abuse files.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A man from Lackawanna County faces child porn charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lackawanna County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, detectives executed a search warrant at Michael Malinauskas&#8217;s home in Clarks Summit on Wednesday, stemming from a cyber tip that he was uploading files of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old is charged with 100 counts of possession of child sexual abuse files.<\/p>\n<p>Malinauskas was previously convicted of possession of child pornography in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a 25-year mandatory minimum if convicted of these new charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Malinauskas is charged with 100 counts of possession of child sexual abuse files. LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-155511","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\/155511","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=155511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}