SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he forced his way into a home, assaulted a man and kidnapped a woman and her 3-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
According to the Scranton Police Department, officers responded to the 1300 block of Penn Avenue on June 27 for a report of an assault and possible kidnapping.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege James Melia unlawfully entered a residence during the early morning hours, assaulted an adult male occupant and threatened to kill him unless a woman and her young daughter accompanied him.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman told investigators Melia prevented her from leaving the residence until she agreed to go with him. Authorities allege Melia then transported the woman and her 3-year-old daughter against the woman’s wishes before dropping them off at a residence in Dickson City, where both were later found safe.<\/p>\n
A coordinated response involving the Scranton Police Department, Dickson City Police Department and assisting agencies established a perimeter, and a police K-9 tracked Melia, leading to his arrest, according to police.<\/p>\n
Melia has been charged with burglary, kidnapping, terroristic threats, simple assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, robbery, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and related offenses.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned and remanded to the Lackawanna County Prison pending further court proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-231827","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\/231827","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=231827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}