{"id":202706,"date":"2026-05-26T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202706\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:25:07","slug":"no-missing-person-found-police-seek-owner-of-overturned-kayak-found-in-lackawanna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202706\/","title":{"rendered":"No missing person found, police seek owner of overturned kayak found in Lackawanna River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Duryea police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying the owner of a kayak found overturned in the Lackawanna River on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were dispatched around 1:15 p.m. Monday to the area of Swetland and Fulton streets after a resident reported spotting an overturned kayak in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Duryea police and firefighters responded to the scene and safely retrieved the kayak from the river.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said no one was found in the water or along the shoreline, and a search of the surrounding area turned up no signs that anyone was missing or in distress.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now attempting to locate the owner of the kayak.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may be missing a kayak or has information about its ownership is asked to contact the Duryea Police Department at 570-457-1721 ext. 1 with a description of the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Duryea police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying the owner of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-202706","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\/202706","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=202706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}