{"id":52362,"date":"2025-12-04T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:35:06","slug":"scranton-police-department-mourns-loss-of-k-9-officer-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52362\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Police Department mourns loss of K-9 Officer Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police department announced Scout&#8217;s passing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The Scranton Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its K-9 officers.<\/p>\n<p>K-9 Officer Scout passed away on Wednesday after suffering an unexpected medical emergency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02VCzFRAtu4oaNCgbkfxK4vWgKvE9rojbQ4wyh6eyyC6HXeYa4bjNTKS2yVRMURKh4l&amp;id=100067457661610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to the department.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scout recently completed his K-9 academy training and was prepared to begin active duty alongside his handler, Officer Matthew Grippo.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Police Department says he was a valued part of their police family and will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police department announced Scout&#8217;s passing on Thursday. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The Scranton Police Department is mourning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-52362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362","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=52362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}