{"id":215881,"date":"2026-06-10T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215881\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:50:07","slug":"exeter-man-jailed-without-bail-on-child-rape-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215881\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter man jailed without bail on child rape charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Exeter man has been charged with multiple felony sex offenses involving a child, according to the Wyoming Area Regional Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Kristopher Powell was taken into custody Wednesday on a felony warrant and charged with rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault of a child younger than 13, and corruption of minors.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offenses occurred in the Birchwood Estates area of Exeter, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Powell was arraigned Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Matthew Carmody, who denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>He was committed to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility pending further court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming Area Regional Police have not released additional details regarding the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Exeter man has been charged with multiple felony sex offenses involving a child, according to the Wyoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-215881","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\/215881","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=215881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}