Police charged a New Hampshire man with stealing a car from a valet service at Geisinger Community Medical Center, crashing it and then fleeing the scene on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
At about 7 a.m., Jeffrey Hall, 57, of Nashua, was leaving the Scranton hospital when he pushed employee\u00a0Tim Neiman, as he stood at the valet podium, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
He continued to the curb, where valet service employee Eugene Wasko was parking a Jeep Wrangler. Hall pulled Wasko from the vehicle, causing the employee to stumble, police said.<\/p>\n
Hall got into the Jeep and drove about 30 feet before hitting two parked cars.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage showed Hall then exiting the vehicle, putting his hands in his pockets and calmly walking away, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Hall and another man had been admitted to the hospital the day before following a traffic accident.<\/p>\n
Officers noted that Hall did not have any head or other injuries.<\/p>\n
A search following his arrest yielded a pipe containing marijuana residue.<\/p>\n
When police questioned Hall about the incident, he said he did not remember taking the vehicle, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Hall is facing felony charges of robbery and theft, in addition to misdemeanor charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
He remains at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on April 21 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police charged a New Hampshire man with stealing a car from a valet service at Geisinger Community Medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-162669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162669","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=162669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}