A masked and hooded Scranton man riding a moped weaved between vehicles as he fled from Taylor police, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Adoni Dan Genao Vasquez, 21, of 1207 S. Main Ave., Apt. 1, is charged with attempting to elude a police officer.<\/p>\n
Officer Matthew McDonald spotted Vasquez on a red moped July 24 around 4:30 p.m. in the 300 block of North Main Street. Vasquez was driving\u00a0erratically and illegally passing vehicles on the right, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
McDonald attempted to stop the moped, but Vasquez accelerated while pulling a mask and hood over his face.<\/p>\n
As McDonald approached Main and Davis streets, he saw Vasquez stopped in heavy traffic while attempting to make a left turn.<\/p>\n
McDonald pulled behind the moped and Vasquez pulled over.<\/p>\n
Vasquez admitted he saw the police lights and heard the siren, but said he was trying to get to work, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
He also faces summary counts of careless driving, unsafe passing and driving outside a traffic lane.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Aug. 31 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masked and hooded Scranton man riding a moped weaved between vehicles as he fled from Taylor police,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,4168,181],"class_list":["post-258525","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-taylor","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258525","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=258525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}