{"id":168931,"date":"2026-04-17T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:19:07","slug":"postal-worker-faces-terroristic-threats-harassment-charges-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168931\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal worker faces terroristic threats, harassment charges in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lepka faces charges after police say he threatened his supervisor at the post office on South Main Street in Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>TAYLOR, Pa. \u2014 A USPS employee is accused of making threats at a post office in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Police say John Lepka, 39, threatened to hurt his supervisor Friday morning at the U.S. Post Office along Stafford Avenue in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested shortly after at the Taylor Post Office along South Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Lepka faces terroristic threats and harassment charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lepka faces charges after police say he threatened his supervisor at the post office on South Main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-168931","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\/168931","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=168931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}