{"id":314329,"date":"2026-10-26T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:56:07","slug":"scranton-man-29-charged-with-indecent-assault-of-a-child-in-lackawanna-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314329\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man, 29, charged with indecent assault of a child in Lackawanna County."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say detectives received a report of an indecent assault on a minor back in September, prompting police to take a 29-year-old into custody<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A man from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> is behind bars after allegedly having inappropriate contact with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>Kapschull also faces separate charges from Dunmore Police for resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say detectives received a report of an indecent assault on a minor back in September, prompting police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-314329","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\/314329","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=314329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}