SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 <\/p>\n
Scranton police announced the arrest of 17-year-old Justin Joel Sikaffy charged as an adult for two attempted armed robberies with a stolen pistol. <\/p>\n
Police responded around 11:44 p.m. Monday to the area of Quincy Avenue and Vine Street for a report of a male pointing a firearm at a woman. <\/p>\n
The victim told police the suspect approached her while she was on her porch, pointed a handgun at her and demanded money before fleeing on foot empty handed.<\/p>\n
A short time later around 12:54 a.m. Tuesday police received a report of an attempted carjacking in the area of Crown Avenue. <\/p>\n
The second victim reported the suspect approached her vehicle, displayed a gun and demanded she exit the vehicle. <\/p>\n
As the woman exited the car, the vehicle rolled down a hill and hit a fence.<\/p>\n
The suspect then fled the scene. <\/p>\n
Police units quickly established a perimeter and contained the suspect. <\/p>\n
A k-9 unit was deployed and successfully tracked the suspect hiding in a South Scranton yard. <\/p>\n
The firearm was recovered in a parking lot where the suspect tossed it. <\/p>\n
Sikaffy is charged as an adult with 2 counts of felony robbery, 2 counts felony evading arrest, felony firearms carried without a license, 2 counts of terroristic threats, 2 counts of aggravated assault, 2 counts of recklessly endangering another person, resisting, and receiving stolen property. <\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and more charges are likely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Scranton police announced the arrest of 17-year-old Justin Joel Sikaffy charged as an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-287785","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\/287785","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=287785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}