A Scranton man threatened to kill another man at Turkey Hill on Monday, approaching him at the store and grabbing his waistband as he attempted to get away, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Mason Harris Gray, 35, faces charges assault and making terroristic threats.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, officers responded to the store in the 300 block of Meridian Avenue at about 5 p.m. on a report of a man threatening another.<\/p>\n
Willi De Jesus pointed Gray out to police, who was standing in the parking lot. Officers arrested Gray and found a Husky folding knife tucked into the front of his waistband.<\/p>\n
Gray told officers De Jesus walked past him and \u201ceyeballed\u201d him, looking him up and down as if he \u201cwanted a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gray told police he had threatened to beat up De Jesus, but hadn\u2019t pulled the knife or threatened him with it.<\/p>\n
Officers then spoke with De Jesus, who said he was walking out of Turkey Hill when Gray became aggressive with him and threatened to kill and shoot him.<\/p>\n
De Jesus said he returned to his vehicle, but Gray continued walking toward him, grabbing and pulling his waistband. He told officers he feared for his life.<\/p>\n
Officers obtained surveillance video from the Turkey Hill manager showing De Jesus walking away from Gray, but Gray then following him to his car and grabbing his waistband.<\/p>\n
Gray, of 1415 Lafayette St.,\u00a0 remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 8 before District Judge Paul Ware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man threatened to kill another man at Turkey Hill on Monday, approaching him at the store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268849,"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-273390","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\/273390","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=273390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}