Scranton police arrested a 19-year-old Virginia man wanted on outstanding murder charges Thursday after officers spotted him having inappropriate contact with a juvenile, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
According to the release, officers were on patrol near the intersection of Cedar Avenue and Birch Street when they observed Nagee Sumler with the underage girl.<\/p>\n
When officers approached Sumler, he fled. Officers pursued him and ultimately took him into custody in the 800 block of Pittston Avenue, using a Taser.<\/p>\n
Sumler was uncooperative and refused to identify himself or to be fingerprinted, police say.<\/p>\n
Officers originally charged him with having unlawful contact with a minor and evading arrest as \u201cJohn Doe,\u201d and he was transported to the Lackawanna County Processing Center, where he continued to be uncooperative.<\/p>\n
He was remanded to Lackawanna County Prison without bail.<\/p>\n
Later on that day, staff were able to fingerprint him and determined he was wanted for second-degree murder and illegal use of a firearm by the Henrico County Police Division in Virginia.<\/p>\n
Officers then added several felony counts to the slate of charges against Sumler, including flight from justice.<\/p>\n
He remains in Lackawanna County Prison without bail.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding Sumler is asked to contact the Scranton Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police arrested a 19-year-old Virginia man wanted on outstanding murder charges Thursday after officers spotted him having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-217641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217641","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=217641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}