{"id":173994,"date":"2026-04-23T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173994\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:24:33","slug":"homeless-man-breaks-into-apartment-cuts-cords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173994\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man breaks into apartment, cuts cords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless man broke into a woman\u2019s apartment and damaged her belongings when she wasn\u2019t home, according to Dunmore police.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Phillip Butler, 27, faces felony charges of burglary and criminal trespass.<\/p>\n<p>Borough police say that sometime in the early hours of Oct. 19, Butler entered a Marion Street residence through an unlocked window while the woman who lived there was out.<\/p>\n<p>Butler is accused of cutting power cords to her belongings, as well as the cable television wire, coffee maker, air conditioner, vacuum cleaner and an extension cord.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Butler allegedly cut a pillow, broke the woman\u2019s toothbrush and wiped Vaseline on the bed and floors of the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $15,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on April 29 before District Judge Kipp Adcock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless man broke into a woman\u2019s apartment and damaged her belongings when she wasn\u2019t home, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-173994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-dunmore","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173994","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=173994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}