{"id":292429,"date":"2026-09-23T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292429\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:34:07","slug":"scranton-man-charged-after-damage-reported-at-west-scranton-junior-football-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292429\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged after damage reported at West Scranton Junior Football Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing felony criminal mischief and false-identification charges after police said he was connected to damage reported at the West Scranton Junior Football Field.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton patrol officers responded to the field Sept. 18 for a report of criminal mischief, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, officers encountered a man matching the description of a possible suspect and identified him as Steven Gilliland, 43, of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a search of Gilliland\u2019s backpack after his arrest turned up a flashlight, small pieces of copper wire and electrical wiring. The items were consistent with materials believed to be involved in the reported damage, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Gilliland is charged with felony criminal mischief in connection with reported damage exceeding $10,000 over multiple days, as well as false identification to law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Scranton man is facing felony criminal mischief and false-identification charges after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-292429","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\/292429","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=292429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}