{"id":160742,"date":"2026-04-08T19:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160742\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:43:20","slug":"arrest-after-shooting-on-scrantons-green-ridge-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160742\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after shooting on Scranton&#8217;s Green Ridge Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;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;Scranton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton<\/a> police filed criminal charges against a man this week and accused him of shooting a man in the stomach last month outside of an afterhours club in the city&#8217;s north end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Roderick Jenkins, 23, is facing charges of aggravated assault and other crimes for allegedly shooting a man named Eric Garcia several times March 15 in a club&#8217;s parking lot at the top of Green Ridge Street near North Main Avenue, according to a criminal complaint. Garcia survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jenkins is jailed at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail and has a preliminary hearing scheduled April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses told police that the shooter was a man named &#8220;Bando,&#8221; who authorities recognized was the street name for Jenkins, who they said is a member of the Bloods street gang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said that Jenkins shot Garcia during the continuation of a fight that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/south-side-shooting-injures-2-192229886.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:erupted the previous day;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;erupted the previous day&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">erupted the previous day<\/a> at Big Daddy&#8217;s Lounge on Cedar Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police filed criminal charges against a man this week and accused him of shooting a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4862,8467,72579,8623,72580,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-160742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-aggravated-assault","9":"tag-criminal-complaint","10":"tag-eric-garcia","11":"tag-preliminary-hearing","12":"tag-roderick-jenkins","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160742","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=160742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}