{"id":202790,"date":"2026-05-26T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:01:08","slug":"scranton-police-charge-exeter-man-with-driving-stolen-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202790\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police charge Exeter man with driving stolen vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON \u2014 A man from Exeter is facing charges alleging he initiated a pursuit while driving a stolen vehicle that ended in a crash and a search in Scranton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton City police say a patrol officer encountered a stolen vehicle allegedly being driven by Sergio M. Faundez, 36, at about 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Faundez initiated a pursuit at a high rate of speed and crashed in the Green Ridge Section of Scranton, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Faundez fled the wrecked vehicle but was captured several blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Faundez was arraigned on charges of receiving stolen property, fleeing or attempting to elude police, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. He was jailed at the Lackawanna County Prison for lack of $30,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>In an unrelated case, Faundez was free on $25,000 unsecured bail imposed Saturday when he was arraigned on charges of theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license that were filed by Pittston City police.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; SCRANTON \u2014 A man from Exeter is facing charges alleging he initiated a pursuit while driving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-202790","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\/202790","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=202790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}