{"id":155582,"date":"2026-04-02T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:17:08","slug":"alleged-scranton-drug-dealer-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155582\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Scranton drug dealer arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A man was arrested after police say he was found selling drugs in the Scranton area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher stated a search warrant executed at home on Mineral Avenue in Scranton led to the arrest of 53-year-old Damion Foster on drug distribution charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/man-plotted-murder-hire-undercover-143040727.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Man plotted murder for hire with undercover officer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Man plotted murder for hire with undercover officer&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Man plotted murder for hire with undercover officer <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The search warrant stemmed from an ongoing investigation into Foster\u2019s alleged involvement in selling drugs within the City of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the execution of the search warrant, investigators seized 20 grams of crack cocaine and 400 MDMA (ecstasy) pills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Foster was arrested at the scene, and the street value of the narcotics is around $5,000. He was arraigned and remains in the Lackawanna County Prison on a $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A man was arrested after police say he was found selling drugs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5871,70520,55994,201,178,180,179,5555,70521],"class_list":{"0":"post-155582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-brian-gallagher","9":"tag-damion-foster","10":"tag-drug-distribution","11":"tag-lackawanna-county","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news","15":"tag-search-warrant","16":"tag-selling-drugs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155582","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=155582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}