A Scranton man faces a felony charge after attacking a state constable with a knife during an eviction, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
City police charged Aniello Martoccio, 41, of 420 Adams Ave., with aggravated assault and possession of a knife following the Monday incident.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint:<\/p>\n
Police officers were called to Martoccio\u2019s apartment at about 11 a.m. for the report of a man who had barricaded himself inside the apartment, armed with a knife.<\/p>\n
Officers found Martoccio sitting with his back to his apartment door so it could not be opened.<\/p>\n
State Constable Charles Warrick told officers he had been sent to the residence for an eviction.<\/p>\n
Warrick said when he attempted to enter the apartment, Martoccio cut him twice \u2014 once on the knuckle and once on the arm.<\/p>\n
Officers spoke with Martoccio, who repeatedly said he was going to jail. Ultimately, Martoccio threw the knife into the hallway.<\/p>\n
Police secured the weapon and moved in to arrest Martoccio.<\/p>\n
Martoccio resisted and reached into his pocket, prompting an officer to deploy his Taser.<\/p>\n
Officers then took Martoccio to the ground and put him in handcuffs.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Dec. 29 before District Judge Joanne Corbett.<\/p>\n
Martoccio remains at the Lackawanna County Prison without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man faces a felony charge after attacking a state constable with a knife during an eviction,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-65378","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-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65378","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=65378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65378\/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=65378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}