{"id":268782,"date":"2026-08-20T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268782\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:10:07","slug":"scranton-woman-accused-of-smuggling-drugs-into-sci-dallas-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268782\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton woman accused of smuggling drugs into SCI Dallas \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scranton woman will face drug-trafficking charges after attempting to smuggle synthetic drugs into State Correctional Institution at Dallas last week, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Askew, 31, is accused of trying to sneak the unspecified synthetic substance into the Jackson Twp. prison on the morning of Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the contraband was seized and placed into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Charges of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to deliver were pending against Askew, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton woman will face drug-trafficking charges after attempting to smuggle synthetic drugs into State Correctional Institution at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268783,"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-268782","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\/268782","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=268782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}