A Scranton man faces charges after police said he attacked his girlfriend inside her vehicle Nov. 3.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
As Morgan became angrier, Lugo told officers he threw a metal cup at the windshield, cracking it, police said.<\/p>\n
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
Lugo told police she couldn\u2019t breathe but did not lose consciousness, officers said.<\/p>\n
Police charged Morgan, 25, with strangulation, simple assault, harassment and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"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-48909","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\/48909","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=48909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}