A 41-year-old Scranton woman faces charges after police said she was found unresponsive Oct. 8 in a running car with her 16-month-old child in the back seat.<\/p>\n
Patrolman\u00a0Mark Striefsky responded to the Wright Center, 5 S. Washington Ave., Archbald, around 3:45 p.m. for the report of an unresponsive female in her vehicle with a young child in distress in the back seat, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Striefsky met with Lou Strazzeri, a Wright Center employee, who said a construction worker on the premises heard a baby crying inside a blue 2017 Mercedes Benz, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver \u2014 identified as Gabrielle Lomonaco \u2014 was unresponsive and slumped over the wheel, with the car running, with a 16-month-old child in the back seat.<\/p>\n
Before officers arrived, bystanders woke up Lomonaco and walked her and the child into the Wright Center, police said.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical technicians evaluated Lomonaco, who refused treatment or transport to a hospital, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Lomonaco told officers, \u201cI guess I fell asleep in the car,\u201d when asked what happened.<\/p>\n
The woman told police she had an appointment at another facility around 1 p.m. and an appointment at the Wright Center at 2, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Lomonaco, who said she takes several different medications, admitted taking a muscle relaxer before driving to the Wright Center but denied using any illegal drugs or drinking alcohol.<\/p>\n
Her boyfriend and stepmother picked up the child from the medical facility, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Lomonaco failed two field sobriety tests and consented to a blood draw, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Upon reviewing video footage, officers discovered Lomonaco arrived at the Wright Center at 2:13 p.m. and was awoken around 3:42\u00a0 \u2014 meaning the child was unsupervised in the vehicle for approximately 90 minutes while her mother was unresponsive, police said.<\/p>\n
Police charged Lomonaco, 528 New York St., with endangering the welfare of children, DUI, and driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked with a BAC over .02.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday, Lomonaco remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $7,500 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 22 at 10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old Scranton woman faces charges after police said she was found unresponsive Oct. 8 in a running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-306552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306552","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=306552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}