{"id":175487,"date":"2026-04-25T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:42:06","slug":"benefit-held-to-support-family-of-late-lackawanna-county-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175487\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit held to support family of late Lackawanna County police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community members came together to support the family of an officer who passed away on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A Lackawanna County community held a fundraising event to support the family of a police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/south-abington-township-mourns-passing-of-officer-seigler-and-chief-doc-gerrity-lackawanna-county-scott-robert\/523-753259ea-09f7-4d0b-8d1c-a0fcaa5fa523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">who passed away late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Siegler Benefit Bash was held at the Best Western Plus in South Abington Township near Clarks Summit, Friday evening, all to support the family of the late South Abington Township Police Officer, Scott Siegler, who died this past New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen such an outpouring of support from this entire community, both the police community, all first responders who love and support the Sieglers, but in addition to that, the entire Abingtons and surrounding area,&#8221; said Heather Percival, co-organizer of the event.<\/p>\n<p>There was food, raffle items, lite fare, a cash bar, basket giveaways, and live music by Mace in Dickson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members came together to support the family of an officer who passed away on New Year&#8217;s Eve.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-175487","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\/175487","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=175487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}