PLAINS, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing multiple charges after Pennsylvania State Police say he returned to a Luzerne County casino after being banned, refused to leave and allegedly assaulted an officer during his arrest.<\/p>\n
According to the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Gaming Enforcement, troopers responded to the gaming floor at Mohegan Pennsylvania, 1280 Route 315 in Plains Township, at about 1:40 p.m. Thursday for a report of a banned individual who had returned to the casino and was refusing to leave.<\/p>\n
Police identified the man as Edward Froncek, 53, of Scranton.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Froncek allegedly attempted to strike an officer and actively resisted as officers took him into custody. Plains Township Police assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n
Froncek was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, trespassing, false identification to law enforcement and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned through Magisterial District Court 11-3-08 and committed to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n
The charges are allegations. Froncek is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLAINS, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing multiple charges after Pennsylvania State Police say he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-234964","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\/234964","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=234964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}