{"id":282152,"date":"2026-09-09T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282152\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:20:17","slug":"17-year-old-female-arrested-after-alleged-assault-on-police-officers-in-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282152\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old female arrested after alleged assault on police officers in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say she kicked, spat on, and head-butted officers.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A teenage girl is in custody after assaulting police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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>The teen allegedly kicked, spit on, and head-butted officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers say she also tried to remove a gun inside of her waistband.<\/p>\n<p>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":"Police say she kicked, spat on, and head-butted officers. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A teenage girl is in custody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-282152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282152","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=282152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}