{"id":189367,"date":"2026-05-11T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:42:17","slug":"scranton-man-jailed-on-multiple-felony-charges-including-child-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189367\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man jailed on multiple felony charges, including child rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A Scranton man is behind bars after being charged with several serious offenses, including crimes involving a child.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show 57-year-old Eliceo Ortega-Davila was arrested May 9 by Scranton police and is currently being held at the Lackawanna County Prison after failing to post $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Ortega-Davila faces multiple felony charges, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault, and rape by forcible compulsion. He is also charged with making terroristic threats.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are tied to alleged incidents that date back to 2023, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega-Davila was arraigned shortly after his arrest and remains in custody as the case moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Ortega-Davila is due back in court for a preliminary hearing tentatively scheduled May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is behind bars after being charged with several serious offenses,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-189367","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\/189367","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=189367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}