{"id":209796,"date":"2026-06-03T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:24:07","slug":"police-activity-closes-portion-of-3rd-avenue-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209796\/","title":{"rendered":"Police activity closes portion of 3rd Avenue in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Scranton police are asking the public to avoid a section of the city&#8217;s South Side due to an active police incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Police Department issued an alert Wednesday advising residents and motorists to stay away from the 300 to 400 block of 3rd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident remains active and that traffic is not being permitted through the area.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released details about the nature of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to seek alternate routes and avoid the area until police clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Scranton police are asking the public to avoid a section of the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-209796","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\/209796","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=209796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}