A Scranton man threatened to stab his father with a pocketknife when the older man attempted to stop an argument between his son and his son\u2019s girlfriend, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Vincent Falchetti, 20, faces charges of making terroristic threats, simple assault, harassment and criminal mischief after allegedly trashing his father\u2019s living space.<\/p>\n
At about 9 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to 499 Mulberry St., Mulberry Tower, for the report of a family domestic incident.<\/p>\n
Officers spoke with Maylin Sankus, who said Falchetti and his father were fighting.<\/p>\n
Police could hear loud banging, smashing and screaming coming from Room 913.<\/p>\n
Officers found Falchetti and his father yelling at each other in the room. They noted the area was \u201ccompletely destroyed\u201d and in disarray.<\/p>\n
Because Falchetti was being aggressive, officers put him in handcuffs, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Falchetti\u2019s father, whose name is also Vincent Falchetti, told officers the couple had come to visit and began arguing with each other.<\/p>\n
When Falchetti became aggressive, his father stepped in and tried to calm him down.<\/p>\n
When Falchetti stepped up to his father and said, \u201cgo ahead and do something,\u201d the older man pushed him away.<\/p>\n
Falchetti then charged his father and struck him in the face, chest, shoulders and head, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
When the two separated, Falchetti began to ransack the apartment, ripping down a television, throwing a Nintendo Switch and Xbox One off the wall, and damaging several other items, police said.<\/p>\n
Falchetti then pulled out a pocketknife and told his father, \u201cI am going to stab you,\u201d according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The older man pushed Falchetti to the ground and the knife fell out of his hand, just before officers arrived.<\/p>\n
Falchetti remains at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 10 before District Judge Joanne Corbett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man threatened to stab his father with a pocketknife when the older man attempted to stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-316455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","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\/316455","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=316455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}