{"id":196083,"date":"2026-05-18T23:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:36:39","slug":"police-throop-man-threatened-marty-flynn-and-a-local-businessman-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196083\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Throop man threatened Marty Flynn and a local businessman online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Lackawanna County man is facing terroristic threats charges after investigators say he posted online threats targeting a state senator and a local businessman.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records and reporting by The Scranton Times-Tribune, 35-year-old Jimmy Goble, of Throop, allegedly posted messages on Facebook threatening to kill state Sen. Marty Flynn and businessman Steve Masterson.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Lackawanna County Detective Harold Zech was alerted Monday to threatening statements posted by a Facebook user operating under the name \u201cJimmy Goble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege the posts included threats to kill both men and referenced searching for their home addresses in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A post on Facebook by Jimmy Goble threatening Sen. Marty Flynn.png\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779147399_920_96feb1e2-755e-4cd2-b678-8eb68ed1e550-ApostonFacebookbyJimmyGoblethreateningSen.MartyFlynn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A post on Facebook by Jimmy Goble threatening Sen. Marty Flynn.png<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Goble was charged with two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of harassment involving threatening or lewd language.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were filed Monday in Lackawanna County court, where the case is awaiting a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released additional details about the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Lackawanna County man is facing terroristic threats charges after investigators say he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-196083","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\/196083","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=196083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}