{"id":169102,"date":"2026-04-18T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:00:06","slug":"nearly-6-pounds-of-cocaine-recovered-in-scranton-narcotics-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169102\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 6 pounds of cocaine recovered in Scranton narcotics investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A joint investigation into drug activity in Scranton has led to the seizure of several pounds of cocaine, according to city police.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the Scranton Police Department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit worked alongside the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation over the past several weeks to target a suspected cocaine distribution operation in the area.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the operation, investigators recovered about three kilograms\u2014roughly six pounds\u2014of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The street value of the cocaine could be more than $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation is ongoing, and additional information will be released as it becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>Charges are expected to be filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A joint investigation into drug activity in Scranton has led to the seizure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-169102","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\/169102","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=169102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}