{"id":273615,"date":"2026-08-28T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273615\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:30:11","slug":"man-in-custody-after-standoff-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273615\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after standoff in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is in custody after a standoff in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police responded to a home along the 1100 block of Luzerne Street around 12:30 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say they were trying to serve a warrant to a man inside who refused to leave the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Part of Luzerne Street was closed for hours before officers took the man into custody around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is no word yet on the man&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after a standoff in Scranton. Police responded to a home along the 1100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[115106,115107,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-273615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-luzerne-street","tag-mans","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273615","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=273615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}