{"id":189649,"date":"2026-05-11T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:57:10","slug":"under-the-influence-a-wanted-scranton-man-hits-a-cop-car-at-a-red-light-police-said-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189649\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the influence, a wanted Scranton man hits a cop car at a red light, police said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of all the cars parked at all the red lights of the world, Pablo Rivera rear-ended perhaps the worst one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Lackawanna County\u00a0;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lackawanna County&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lackawanna County\u00a0<\/a>Processing Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rivera, of Scranton, was arrested for driving under the influence, providing false identification to the police and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bail and preliminary hearing information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the cars parked at all the red lights of the world, Pablo Rivera rear-ended perhaps the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[72252,201,84512,84513,23867,60877,84515,84514,178,180,179,487,84516],"class_list":["post-189649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-false-identification","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-pablo-rivera","tag-patrick-walsh","tag-police-cruiser","tag-possession-of-drug-paraphernalia","tag-processing-center","tag-roberto-martinez","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-state-police","tag-the-red-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189649","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=189649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}