{"id":252907,"date":"2026-07-27T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252907\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:54:09","slug":"pennsylvania-man-admits-assaulting-ex-girlfriend-in-a-c-breaking-ac-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252907\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man admits assaulting ex-girlfriend in A.C. \u2013 Breaking AC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pennsylvania man admitted brandishing a knife during an attempt to grab his former girlfriedn in Atlantic City last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucas Moran, 27, from Dunmore, Pa., pleaded guilty last week to one count of third-degree aggravated assault on a domestic violence victim. He faces a five-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police were called to Adriatic Avenue on Sept. 28, in reference to a person being dragged into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moran dragged the woman into a Chrysler 300 with a Pennsylvania registration, according to the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim told police that Moran brandished a knife during the attempt but she was able to escape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman\u2019s mother was able to keep him from dragging the woman back into the vehicle, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moran fled, driving west toward Absecon Boulevard.  State Police located him driving on the Atlantic City Expressway, and detained him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A foldable tactical knife was found on Moran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has been in the Atlantic County Justice Facility since his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moran is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man admitted brandishing a knife during an attempt to grab his former girlfriedn in Atlantic City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-252907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252907","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=252907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}