{"id":155631,"date":"2026-04-02T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:18:11","slug":"over-70-dead-cats-were-found-in-scranton-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155631\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 70 dead cats were found in Scranton home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 An update to <a href=\"https:\/\/fox56.com\/news\/local\/scranton-man-charged-after-more-than-20-cats-found-in-condemned-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the aggravated cruelty investigation in South Scranton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scranton police, alongside multiple animal rescue organizations, rescued 31 live cats and 76 deceased cats from a home on Meadow Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>47-year-old Mark Aaron Yaskoweak faces several animal neglect and cruelty charges.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing in conjunction with the Lackawanna County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 An update to the aggravated cruelty investigation in South Scranton. Scranton police, alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-155631","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\/155631","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=155631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}