{"id":280776,"date":"2026-09-07T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280776\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:46:12","slug":"17-year-old-female-arrested-after-alleged-assault-on-police-officers-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280776\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old female arrested after alleged assault on police officers in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A teenage girl is in custody after assaulting police in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, the 17-year-old ran from officers after they interrupted what they describe as an &#8220;armed violent encounter&#8221; along Taylor Avenue in Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teen allegedly kicked, spit on, and head-butted officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say she also tried to remove a gun inside of her waistband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say she will be charged with several counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and related charges after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl is in custody after assaulting police in Scranton.\u00a0 According to police, the 17-year-old ran from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39704,22286,178,180,179,62948],"class_list":["post-280776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-17-year-old","tag-encounter","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wnep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280776","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=280776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}