{"id":245716,"date":"2026-07-17T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:59:08","slug":"pittston-man-charged-with-arson-in-firebombing-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245716\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston man charged with arson in firebombing \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittston man is jailed without bail on arson charges after police say he used incendiary devices to firebomb a building in the city early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley Scott Rush, 32, is accused of setting several fires around an occupied building in the 100 block of Market Street. Police said nobody was injured in the firebombing.<\/p>\n<p>City and state police investigated the incendiary devices and identified Rush as a suspect in the attack, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Rush with arson, reckless burning, possessing explosives, risking catastrophe, failing to report a dangerous fire, failing to prevent a catastrophe and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Ferris Peter Webby Sr. arraigned Rush on the charges Thursday and denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>Rush was being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation into the firebombing was ongoing and that additional arrests were possible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Pittston police at 570-654-2425, extension 1534.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittston man is jailed without bail on arson charges after police say he used incendiary devices to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-245716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","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\/245716","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=245716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}