A Peckville woman showed up at her sister\u2019s house Monday and threatened to kill her, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Latoya Thompson told police officers she took the threat seriously because it was consistent with her sister\u2019s previous behavior.<\/p>\n
Menynn Saintpreux, 36, of 613 Keystone Ave., faces charges of making terroristic threats, simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, city officers responded to a Beech Street residence in Scranton for a report a woman with a knife involved in a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n
Thompson told officers Saintpreux stood in front of her residence, yelling for her to come outside and fight, but she refused out of concern for her own safety.<\/p>\n
Saintpreux then took out a knife and held it in a threatening manner, police said<\/p>\n
At one point, Saintpreux said she was going to kill Johnson, while holding the knife, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Takia Thompson, who was with Latoya Thompson inside the home, told officers she witnessed Saintpreux holding a knife and making threats. Takia Thompson told officers she had also feared for her life.<\/p>\n
Saintpreux remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of\u00a0 $5,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on May 18 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Peckville woman showed up at her sister\u2019s house Monday and threatened to kill her, according to a…\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-187570","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\/187570","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=187570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187570\/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=187570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}