{"id":314787,"date":"2026-10-26T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314787\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:38:08","slug":"scranton-man-charged-with-indecent-assault-involving-child-younger-than-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314787\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged with indecent assault involving child younger than 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 29-year-old Scranton man faces charges after an investigation into an alleged indecent assault involving a child younger than 13, Scranton police said.<\/p>\n<p>Brendon Kapschull was arrested after detectives with the department\u2019s Special Victims Unit investigated a report received Sept. 3. Police said Kapschull was taken into custody after a brief struggle with officers.<\/p>\n<p>He faces one felony count and one misdemeanor count of indecent assault of a child under 13, police said. Dunmore police filed separate charges related to resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The department did not release further details about the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 29-year-old Scranton man faces charges after an investigation into an alleged indecent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-314787","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\/314787","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=314787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}