{"id":226809,"date":"2026-06-24T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:07:08","slug":"scranton-police-north-scranton-traffic-stop-leads-to-narcotics-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226809\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police: North Scranton traffic stop leads to narcotics arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Stroudsburg man faces multiple drug and vehicle-related charges after an early morning traffic stop Sunday, the Scranton Police Department said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers patrolling the North Scranton area in response to numerous reports of car break-ins attempted to stop a vehicle for failing to comply with traffic control signals on Oak Street.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, later identified as Toy Garrett, fled. Garrett was later located on Ferdinand Street after a one-vehicle crash into a fixed object, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett faces a slew of charges including possession with intent to deliver numerous types of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia, tampering with evidence and flight to avoid apprehension.<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned Sunday before District Judge Alyce Farrell, who denied bail, and remains at Lackawanna County Prison. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Stroudsburg man faces multiple drug and vehicle-related charges after an early morning traffic stop Sunday, the Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226810,"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-226809","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\/226809","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=226809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}