{"id":184381,"date":"2026-05-05T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184381\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:07:06","slug":"police-bust-large-underage-party-in-duryea-18-cited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184381\/","title":{"rendered":"Police bust large underage party in Duryea, 18 cited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police broke up a large underage drinking party late Thursday night, resulting in citations for nearly 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called around 10:45 p.m. on April 24 to the 400 block of Meyer Street for reports of a large gathering involving suspected underage drinking.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they say a large group of juveniles scattered from the area. Officers were able to locate and detain many of those involved shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities transported the individuals to the Duryea Police Station, where they were identified and later released to their parents or guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Police say 18 individuals under the age of 21 were cited for underage drinking. Those cited are from several nearby communities, including Avoca, Duryea, Pittston, Dupont, Mountain Top, and Jenkins Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police broke up a large underage drinking party late Thursday night, resulting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-184381","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\/184381","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=184381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}