A Scranton man stood naked in a common area of his apartment building screaming at another tenant, and then struggled with police during his arrest Thursday, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Christopher Demarco originally called police to the Capouse Avenue apartment building at about 1 a.m., to complain that a Lillian Garcia was harassing him and threatening to turn off his utilities.<\/p>\n
Garcia, however, told officers a different story when they interviewed her after arriving at the building. She said Demarco had been screaming and banging on his walls, disturbing the other residents.<\/p>\n
When she began recording outside his room, intending to inform the landlord of his activities, he came to his doorway naked and began screaming at her, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Officers noted the hallway was a common area of the building.\u00a0Garcia provided them with a video confirming her version of the story.<\/p>\n
Officers took Demarco into custody. As they were attempting to escort him to the police transport van, he began flailing against the doors and the officers.<\/p>\n
Demarco resisted getting into the van, digging his feet into the metal footstep, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to gain control of Demarco by placing him on his stomach. During transport to police headquarters, he banged his head off the floor of the vehicle, causing a laceration, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Once at headquarters, emergency medical personnel treated him. He refused other treatment.<\/p>\n
Demarco faces charges of indecent exposure, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and harassment.<\/p>\n
He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on July 22 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man stood naked in a common area of his apartment building screaming at another tenant, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"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-240495","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\/240495","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=240495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}