{"id":205589,"date":"2026-05-29T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:06:07","slug":"scranton-police-searching-for-missing-woman-last-seen-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205589\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police searching for missing woman last seen in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Scranton police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating a missing woman who was last seen nearly two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Scranton Police Department, 41-year-old Ashley Johnston was last seen on March 31, 2026. Police said Johnston is believed to be unhoused and is originally from North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Her disappearance was reported to police on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston is described as a white female standing 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing approximately 130 pounds. Police said her clothing at the time she was last seen is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Johnston\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Phillips at mphillips@scrantonpa.gov or call the Scranton Police Department at 570-348-4134.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the Scranton Police online tip portal.<\/p>\n<p>Police advise anyone who sees Johnston not to approach her and instead call 911 or the Scranton Police Department immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Scranton police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating a missing woman who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-205589","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\/205589","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=205589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}