{"id":35332,"date":"2025-11-15T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:15:08","slug":"scranton-police-search-for-missing-endangered-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35332\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police search for missing, endangered person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 City of Scranton police are searching for a man they say went missing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">25-year-old Jacob Wood went missing at 302 Lauer Avenue and was last seen wearing a blue Carhartt top, tan pants, and blue sneakers, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said Wood is about 5 feet and 8 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/news\/local-news\/plains-twp-water-main-break-affects-approximately-100-customers\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Plains Twp. water main break affects approximately 100 customers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Plains Twp. water main break affects approximately 100 customers <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wood is known to walk around Keyser Avenue and Dalton Street, Scranton police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact Scranton Police Patrol Officer Dougherty at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:cdougherty@scrantonpa.gov\" data-ylk=\"slk:cdougherty@scrantonpa.gov;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cdougherty@scrantonpa.gov<\/a> or by calling the Scranton Police Desk at (570) 348-4134.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If seen, police ask residents not to approach Wood and notify Officer Dougherty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 City of Scranton police are searching for a man they say went missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22026,22025,201,178,180,179,22027],"class_list":{"0":"post-35332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-blue-sneakers","9":"tag-jacob-wood","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-scranton-police-desk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35332","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=35332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}