{"id":202762,"date":"2026-05-26T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:09","slug":"exeter-man-arrested-in-car-theft-probe-in-green-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202762\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter man arrested in car theft probe in Green Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Luzerne County man was arrested after he stole a car and then crashed it in Scranton, police say.<\/p>\n<p>At about 9 a.m. on Tuesday, a vehicle that was reported stolen from Olyphant on Monday evening was spotted by Scranton police officers in the Green Ridge area of the city, using a vehicle license scanner, according to a police release.<\/p>\n<p>Once spotted, the driver quickly sped away and then crashed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were told the suspect, later identified as Sergio Faundez, 36, of Exeter, fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Officers established a perimeter around the site of the crashed vehicle and began a search, with the assistance of the Dunmore police and the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office. They also used a Scranton Police Department drone.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later Faundez was identified and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Luzerne County man was arrested after he stole a car and then crashed it in Scranton, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,1027,201,182,803,139,2120,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-202762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-exeter","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-olyphant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202762","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=202762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}