A Covington Twp. woman pointed a gun at two other women on Thursday during a dispute over parking, Scranton police said.<\/p>\n
At about noon officers were called to the 300 block of Lackawanna Avenue, near the Marketplace at Steamtown, for an individual pointing a gun at another person.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they spoke with Imani Ingrim and Sharee Maultsby.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint:<\/p>\n
Ingrim said she was parking her vehicle behind another vehicle, which Jessica Lopez had just parked, when Lopez rolled down her window and yelled, \u201cback up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ingrim told officers she complied with Lopez\u2019s request and backed up.<\/p>\n
When Ingrim and Maultsby got out of their car and headed for the parking meter to pay for parking, Lopez, 42, of 27 Jubilee Road, asked \u201cwhat their problem was parking behind her,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
The three began to argue, when Lopez reached into her waistband, pulled out a gun and pointed it at them, saying, \u201cI have a concealed weapon,\u201d Ingrim and Maultsby told officers.<\/p>\n
Ingrim and Maultsby told Lopez they were calling the police and crossed the street to the Marketplace at Steamtown, where they called 911.<\/p>\n
Lopez told officers she had just parked her vehicle and was attempting to move it closer to the curb, when Ingrim pulled up behind her.<\/p>\n
Lopez told officers her vehicle didn\u2019t have a backup camera and had a hitch, so she was concerned about hitting Ingrim\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
Lopez acknowledged that Ingrim backed up when she asked her to.<\/p>\n
When Lopez got out of her vehicle, the two were talking near the parking meter and she asked, \u201cIs there a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lopez told police Maultsby began \u201cegging her on\u201d and that she said, \u201cLet\u2019s move on with our day and pay for what we have to pay for.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Ingrim and Maultsby walked toward her, she went back into her vehicle and got her gun, Lopez said.<\/p>\n
She told police she put the firearm in her waistband and denied pointing it at the other women.<\/p>\n
A witness told officers they saw Lopez pointing the gun at the two women, but also said the two women seemed to be escalating the situation.<\/p>\n
The gun was identified as a Springfield Hellcat 9 mm firearm.\u00a0Police said Lopez had a valid concealed license to carry.<\/p>\n
Lopez is charged with simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on Nov. 3 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Covington Twp. woman pointed a gun at two other women on Thursday during a dispute over parking,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6487,202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-covington-township","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063","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=16063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}