{"id":62729,"date":"2025-12-16T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:02:07","slug":"scranton-man-gets-10-20-year-sentence-for-shooting-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62729\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man gets 10-20 year sentence for shooting ex-girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 28-year-old Lackawanna County man who admitted he shot his ex-girlfriend in the leg earlier this year learned Tuesday he will spend the next 10-to-20 years in a state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Claude K. Harris, of Scranton, was sentenced to the maximum term by Judge Michael J. Barrasse. In a statement, District Attorney Brian Gallagher noted that Harris was on probation in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/man-arrested-after-shooting-ex-girlfriend-in-scranton-lackawanna-county\/523-9e1987c0-37cc-484a-9a49-2d69feea144c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">when he shot at his ex-girlfriend<\/a> from the window of a vehicle on Lafayette Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Law enforcement in Lackawanna County must take a more aggressive stance against repeat violent offenders, expecially convicted felons who are prohibited from possessing firearms,&#8221; Gallagher said. &#8220;When individuals, life this defendant, who are already under court supervision, choose to arm themselves and commit violent crimes, we will seek the maximum sentences allowed by law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Harris was on probation from an earlier drug case. He was prohibited from owning guns from a prior felony firearms conviction, Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman he shot at was struck in her calf and made a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Harris pleaded guilty in September to illegally possessing a firearm and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 28-year-old Lackawanna County man who admitted he shot his ex-girlfriend in the leg earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-62729","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\/62729","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=62729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}