{"id":189357,"date":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189357\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:30:07","slug":"under-the-influence-a-wanted-scranton-man-hits-a-cop-car-at-a-red-light-police-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189357\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the influence, a wanted Scranton man hits a cop car at a red light, police said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one was hurt in the pre-dawn collision, but Pablo Rivera ended up in handcuffs<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Of all the cars parked at all the red lights of the world, Pablo Rivera rear-ended perhaps the worst one.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the car that state police said Rivera, 45, ran into the back of early Saturday morning while under the influence was a police cruiser taking an arrestee to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County\u00a0<\/a>Processing Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rivera, of Scranton, was arrested for driving under the influence, providing false identification to the police and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>State police said he rear-ended Old Forge officers Patrick Walsh and Roberto Martinez while they were stopped at a red light at Olive Street and Penn Avenue just before 1 a.m. The Old Forge police officers were taking an arrestee in for processing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once the crash happened, the police said he refused to identify himself. However, a fingerprint scan turned up an active warrant for vehicle theft.<\/p>\n<p>Bail and preliminary hearing information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one was hurt in the pre-dawn collision, but Pablo Rivera ended up in handcuffs SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-189357","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\/189357","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=189357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}