{"id":199912,"date":"2026-05-22T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:44:08","slug":"scranton-police-suspects-break-in-and-threaten-to-blow-up-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199912\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police: Suspects break in and threaten to blow up house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people face felony trespass charges after police say they broke into a house and threatened to \u201cblow it up\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Just after midnight, Scranton police were called to 1725 Lafayette St. on a report of tresspassing.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they spoke with Heather Hoinowski, who said Trent Smith and Kayla Guthrie entered her residence through an unlocked window while she was upstairs in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Hoinowski said the two made threats to blow up the house with her inside it, before fleeing in a Honda Pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Officers confirmed Smith, 25, of Bellefonte, was wanted by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Smith nor Guthrie, 33, of Monroe Avenue, Scranton, resided at the house, Hoinowski said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers retrieved a purse Guthrie dropped as she fled. It contained a prescription bottle that identified her.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Guthrie each face charges of criminal trespass and making terroristic threats. Each remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $25,000. Their preliminary hearings are scheduled for June 1 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people face felony trespass charges after police say they broke into a house and threatened to \u201cblow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"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-199912","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\/199912","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=199912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}