{"id":185404,"date":"2026-05-06T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:25:08","slug":"authorities-probe-death-of-5-week-old-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185404\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities probe death of 5-week old \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lackawanna County officials are investigating the death of an infant early Saturday morning, according to District Attorney Brian Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton police officers responded to 106 South Rebecca Avenue at about 2 a.m. to investigate the death of a 5-week-old baby.<\/p>\n<p>There city police found Estephanie Vigo, the infant\u2019s mother, who became increasingly disorderly and demanded to see the child, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Vigo, 34, told officers she would \u201cact in a manner that would cause them to shoot her,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>She threatened to go into the kitchen, retrieve a knife and attack officers, in an effort to be shot.<\/p>\n<p>Vigo is charged with three counts of\u00a0 making terroristic threats. She remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 13 before District Judge Laura Turlip.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County officials are investigating the death of an infant early Saturday morning, according to District Attorney Brian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-185404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185404","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=185404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}