A 26-year-old Scranton man attempted to break into his ex-girlfriend\u2019s residence a day after he attacked her, police said.<\/p>\n
During a Monday assault, Brandon Gadsden hit his ex in the head with a hammer, sending her to the hospital, where she required stiches, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
In spite of aggravated assault charges he faced in the first incident, Gadsden returned to her house Tuesday and attempted to break in.<\/p>\n
At about 11 p.m., police responded to the report of the break-in at the Jackson Street residence.<\/p>\n
As officers spoke with Janae Norton, the victim, they spotted damage to the door frame and boot marks, consistent with an attempt to break in to the apartment.<\/p>\n
Norton said Gadsden kicked in her back door. She told officers he had been arrested the previous day for hitting her in the head with a hammer.<\/p>\n
Officers confirmed Gadsden had been charged with aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon for the previous incident.<\/p>\n
They noted Norton had visible injuries, with staples and dried blood on the side of her head from her recent medical treatment.<\/p>\n
Norton turned over the hammer used in the prior assault, as well as a blanket belonging to Gadsden that was caught on the doorknob as he fled, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
She told officers Gadsden had kicked open the door. When she yelled that she was calling police, he ran, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Officers found Gadsden at the Turkey Hill on Meridian Avenue and arrested him.<\/p>\n
Gadsden faces charges of criminal trespass, loitering and criminal mischief, in addition to previous charges of aggravated assault and simple assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n
He remains at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on June 1 before District Judge Sean Gallagher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old Scranton man attempted to break into his ex-girlfriend\u2019s residence a day after he attacked her, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181376,"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-181375","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\/181375","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=181375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}