{"id":169377,"date":"2026-04-18T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:43:06","slug":"authorities-seize-six-pounds-of-cocaine-during-scranton-investigation-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169377\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities seize six pounds of cocaine during Scranton investigation \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several weeks, the Scranton Police Department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, conducted a joint operation targeting a cocaine distribution network operating in the Scranton area, according to the Scranton police department.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this coordinated investigation, authorities seized about three kilograms or about six pounds of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active, and additional details will be released when doing so will not compromise ongoing investigative efforts, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past several weeks, the Scranton Police Department\u2019s Street Crimes Unit, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169378,"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-169377","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\/169377","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=169377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}