{"id":62009,"date":"2025-12-16T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:02:19","slug":"constable-injured-during-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62009\/","title":{"rendered":"Constable injured during eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A man was arrested after police say he \u201cjabbed\u201d at a constable while being evicted from his apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Scranton Police Department, a tenant at Adams High Rise in Scranton was being evicted, and when the constable showed up, the man \u201cjabbed him\u201d with a \u201csmall knife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"667\" height=\"494\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cd7a9c506f65ca6340495271f631f0d5.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"585\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6f7f0cfbfe01697e7756f5c10601167e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An officer stated the man barricaded himself in his apartment; however, police were able to get him to throw his knife down and come out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was arrested, and the constable had small cuts on his hands, according to police. The man\u2019s identity has not been released.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 A man was arrested after police say he \u201cjabbed\u201d at a constable while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[33386,201,178,180,179,20916],"class_list":{"0":"post-62009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-adams-high-rise","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news","13":"tag-scranton-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62009","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=62009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}