{"id":60840,"date":"2025-12-14T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:31:06","slug":"olyphant-police-searching-for-man-wanted-on-assault-harassment-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60840\/","title":{"rendered":"Olyphant Police searching for man wanted on assault, harassment charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police in Olyphant are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a man wanted in connection with an ongoing criminal case involving assault and harassment charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Olyphant Borough Police Department, Sean M. Dodgson, 43, is wanted and facing charges of simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgson is described as standing approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds. Police released a photograph of the suspect as part of their effort to locate him.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging anyone who sees Dodgson or knows his whereabouts not to approach or attempt to apprehend him. Instead, police ask that tips be reported by calling 911 or by contacting the Olyphant Borough Police Department through its official Facebook page. Police say all tips will remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Officials also emphasized that the post and photograph will be removed once Dodgson is taken into custody. As with all criminal cases, police note that all suspects are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police in Olyphant are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-60840","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\/60840","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=60840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}