{"id":231893,"date":"2026-06-30T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:23:07","slug":"scranton-police-investigate-alleged-assault-home-invasion-and-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231893\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police investigate alleged assault, home invasion and kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man broke into a residence, attacked a man and threatened to kill a woman unless she and her 3-year-old daughter accompanied him, Scranton police charge.<\/p>\n<p>James Melia broke into a home in the 1300 block of Penn Avenue on Saturday just after midnight, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman and child accompanied Melia to a residence in Dickson City, where police found them uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>Police apprehended Melia after a K-9 tracked him. He faces felony charges of kidnapping, robbery and burglary, in addition to misdemeanor charges of making terroristic threats and assault.<\/p>\n<p>He remains at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Monday before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man broke into a residence, attacked a man and threatened to kill a woman unless she and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-231893","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","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231893","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=231893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}