Scranton police arrested a 24-year-old city man in connection with a shooting at Big Daddy\u2019s Bar on the day of the St. Patrick\u2019s Parade, the department said in a release.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Major Crimes and Street Crimes units, with assistance from United States marshals, arrested Elijah Barcola at the Skyview Apartments on Crown Circle Drive in Scranton on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Konstinse Wyman, Barcola\u2019s girlfriend, was at the apartment at the time of the arrest and was also taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers searched the apartment and found a stolen Glock Model 48 9 mm handgun inside a child\u2019s bedroom, along with a loaded magazine containing 10 rounds of ammunition, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Officers also found 27 baggies of marijuana, five plastic containers of psilocybin, a black pistol holder, five cellphones, a scale and packaging material, the release concluded.<\/p>\n
Barcola and Wyman face charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of children and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Barcola is also charged with illegal possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing, police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police arrested a 24-year-old city man in connection with a shooting at Big Daddy\u2019s Bar on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-199419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419","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=199419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}