SCRANTON, PA \u2014 The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office has filed a petition in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas seeking an emergency injunction to shut down Solstice Bar & Grill on West Market Street as a public nuisance. <\/p>\n
District Attorney Brian J. Gallagher stated that the emergency motion requests a court order forcing the business to immediately cease all operations while the civil enforcement proceeding moves forward. The legal complaint asks the court to declare the establishment a public nuisance and, upon formal judicial findings, permanently halt operations at the site. <\/p>\n
The emergency filing follows a major disturbance during the early morning hours of Oct. 3, when a massive crowd spilled out of Solstice Bar & Grill. According to law enforcement officials, multiple fights broke out on West Market Street, completely blocking vehicular traffic and creating a dangerous, volatile scene. <\/p>\n
The severity of the incident required a large-scale mutual-aid response. Officers from the Scranton Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police, and several surrounding municipal police departments were called in to restore order and clear the roadway.<\/p>\n
The District Attorney’s Office contends that continuous emergency calls to the location place an unreasonable burden on regional public safety resources and threaten neighborhood safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, PA \u2014 The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office has filed a petition in the Lackawanna County Court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[624,201,7510,102414,93326,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-301636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-district-attorney","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-nepa","tag-nuisance-bar","tag-public-nuisance","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301636","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=301636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}