{"id":160791,"date":"2026-04-08T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:58:07","slug":"scranton-man-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-animal-cruelty-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160791\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty, neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A Scranton man is facing numerous animal cruelty charges following an investigation earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>James Flores, 39, has been charged with seven counts of cruelty to animals and seven counts of animal neglect related to tethering, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the charges stem from an incident on February 22. Flores is accused of leaving several animals, including a dog and six puppies, inside a home on Division St. for more than a week without food or water.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show Flores\u2019 case is currently active and awaiting a preliminary hearing, which is scheduled for May 4 before a magisterial district judge.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not released additional details about the condition of the animals involved.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Flores remains charged as the case moves through the court system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing numerous animal cruelty charges following an investigation earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160791","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\/160791","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=160791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}