{"id":220894,"date":"2026-06-16T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220894\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:23:07","slug":"police-scranton-woman-threatens-to-blow-up-south-side-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220894\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Scranton woman threatens to blow up South Side residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman evicted from her South Scranton residence about a year ago returned to the neighborhood Sunday and threatened to blow up a home there, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Hubshman, 49, is accused of making terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, James Loven came to the Scranton police station on Sunday to report Hubshman had threatened him.<\/p>\n<p>He told officers that although she had been evicted about a year ago, she repeatedly returned to the area at odd hours of the day to harass and intimidate his family.<\/p>\n<p>He said Hubshman\u2019s repeated presence near his home was an ongoing source of concern for his family.<\/p>\n<p>He described her actions as \u201cunwanted and intimidating,\u201d making his family feel uneasy in their own home.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Hubshman came onto his property and threatened him, using words to the effect of \u201cI\u2019m going to blow up your residence,\u201d Loven told police.<\/p>\n<p>He told officers he considered the threat genuine, given Hubshman\u2019s pattern of behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Loven told officers he feared Hubshman would carry out the threat or otherwise harm him or his family members.<\/p>\n<p>Loven said Hubshman fled the area on foot after making the threat, before law enforcement could be contacted.<\/p>\n<p>He told officers he didn\u2019t know her current whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that he feared for the well-being of everyone residing at his residence and wanted the incident formally documented due to the escalating nature of Hubshman\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Hubshman remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on June 24 before District Judge Sean McGraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman evicted from her South Scranton residence about a year ago returned to the neighborhood Sunday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117380,"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-220894","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\/220894","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=220894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}