{"id":283272,"date":"2026-09-10T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:16:07","slug":"scranton-restaurant-that-was-shut-down-by-d-a-s-office-can-reopen-under-strict-conditions-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283272\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton restaurant that was shut down by D.A.&#8217;s office can reopen under strict conditions, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County D.A.&#8217;s office has reached an agreement with Isla Paraiso, allowing the business to continue as a restaurant while ending nightclub operations.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A restaurant in Scranton will partially reopen after recently being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/isla-paraiso-restaurant-scranton-ordered-closed-lackawanna-county-district-attorneys-office-after-disturbance-complaints\/523-ac677ee5-cd63-4ffa-8be2-8a040b0d90d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">shut down due to multiple disturbances.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isla Paraiso, along South Main Avenue, operated as a restaurant during the day but would transform into a nightclub from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The business was shut down earlier this month by the Lackawanna County District Attorney&#8217;s Office after the Scranton Police Department received 28 calls for service at the location, including reports of early-morning noise complaints, fights, and even gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the D.A.&#8217;s Office says the establishment can reopen, but only as a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the property can no longer be used as a nightclub, event space, bar, lounge, after-hours club, BYOB establishment, or any similar operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County D.A.&#8217;s office has reached an agreement with Isla Paraiso, allowing the business to continue as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-283272","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\/283272","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=283272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}