{"id":314097,"date":"2026-10-25T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314097\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:32:08","slug":"scranton-man-charged-with-indecent-assault-of-a-child-aggravated-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314097\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged with indecent assault of a child, aggravated assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old Scranton man faces charges following an investigation into allegations of indecent assault of a child under the age of 13, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 3, detectives from the Scranton Police Special Victims Unit launched the investigation after receiving a report of an alleged indecent assault involving a minor, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police took Brendon Kapschull into custody Thursday after a brief struggle with law enforcement, officers said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Kapschull (Courtesy Scranton Police Department)\" width=\"229\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/STT-L-BRIEF-1-1026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1958802\" \/>Kapschull (Courtesy Scranton Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Scranton police charged Kapschull with felony and misdemeanor charges of indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Kapschull also faces charges filed by the Dunmore Police Department including aggravated assault, terroristic threats, simple assault, resisting arrest and possession of an instrument of crime, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, Kapschull remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 6 at 9:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old Scranton man faces charges following an investigation into allegations of indecent assault of a child under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-314097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dunmore","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\/314097","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=314097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}