{"id":48740,"date":"2025-12-01T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48740\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:48:07","slug":"scranton-man-faces-strangulation-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48740\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man faces strangulation charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Scranton man faces charges after police said he attacked his girlfriend inside her vehicle Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a conversation at police headquarters Nov. 24, Karina Lugo told officers that her boyfriend, Rahjuan Morgan, physically attacked her three weeks ago, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lugo told officers she woke up feeling upset Nov. 3 and went into her car to watch videos and have some time to herself, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When Morgan woke up and noticed Lugo was not in the bed, he confronted her inside the vehicle and started verbally arguing with her, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Morgan became angrier, Lugo told officers he threw a metal cup at the windshield, cracking it, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then, when Lugo yelled at him, Morgan put his hands around her neck and started to strangle her, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lugo told police she couldn\u2019t breathe but did not lose consciousness, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police charged Morgan, 25, with strangulation, simple assault, harassment and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Sunday, Morgan, 911 W. Market St., remained in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 9 at 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man faces charges after police said he attacked his girlfriend inside her vehicle Nov. 3. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28246,28247,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-48740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-karina-lugo","tag-rahjuan-morgan","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740","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=48740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}