{"id":279056,"date":"2026-09-04T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279056\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:20:38","slug":"rome-police-wrap-erie-canal-assault-probe-five-juveniles-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279056\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Police wrap Erie Canal assault probe, five juveniles charged"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROME, N.Y. \u2014 Five juveniles were arrested in connection with an assault along the Erie Canal in late August, the Rome Police Department said.<\/p>\n

The department announced that the investigation into an assault concluded on Sept. 2. The department announced the end of its investigation in a Facebook post on Friday.<\/p>\n

The department said members of the Division & Juvenile Aid Division identified, located and charged five juveniles in connection with the incident. All five of the juveniles were charged with assault in the third degree.<\/p>\n

Their names were not released due to their age.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 27, the department charged Damaris Brane, 34, with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the assault. The department said she is the mother of two of the children<\/a> who were involved.<\/p>\n

\"Damaris<\/p>\n

Damaris Brane, 34. (Aug. 27, 2026) (PHOTO SOURCE: ROME POLICE DEPARTMENT)<\/p>\n

Additional charges against her remain possible, the department said.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the assault began when the Rome Police Department was made aware of a social video showing the juveniles attacking a man under a bridge by the Erie Canal. The department said the assault occurred sometime around Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

At the time, the police said it needed the public’s help identifying the juveniles involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, N.Y. \u2014 Five juveniles were arrested in connection with an assault along the Erie Canal in late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-279056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279056","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=279056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}