SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing DUI charges after state police say he crashed into a police vehicle early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
According to Pennsylvania State Police, the incident happened just before 1 a.m. at the intersection of Olive Street and Penn Avenue in Scranton.<\/p>\n
Investigators say two Old Forge police officers were stopped at a red light in a marked patrol vehicle while transporting a female arrestee to the Lackawanna County Processing Center. While waiting at the light, their vehicle was hit from behind by an SUV.<\/p>\n
Police say the driver of that vehicle, identified as 45-year-old Pablo Rivera of Scranton, showed signs of impairment at the scene. Troopers say Rivera initially refused to identify himself before being taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Authorities later used a fingerprint scan to confirm his identity and discovered he was also wanted on an active felony warrant out of Scranton for a vehicle theft case.<\/p>\n
No one was injured in the crash.<\/p>\n
Rivera is now facing charges related to driving under the influence, along with additional offenses. He is being held at the Lackawanna County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing DUI charges after state police say he crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-189402","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\/189402","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=189402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}