{"id":314305,"date":"2026-10-26T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314305\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:44:08","slug":"scranton-man-29-charged-with-indecent-assault-of-a-child-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314305\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man, 29, charged with indecent assault of a child in Lackawanna County."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man from <a data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lackawanna County<\/a> is behind bars after allegedly having inappropriate contact with a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say detectives received a report of an alleged indecent assault of a 13-year-old minor back in September, prompting their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the investigation, they took 29-year-old Brendon Kapschull from Scranton into custody, he faces charges of Assault of a Child Under 13 and Indecent Assault of Child Under 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kapschull also faces separate charges from Dunmore Police for resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Lackawanna County is behind bars after allegedly having inappropriate contact with a minor. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-314305","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\/314305","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=314305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}