{"id":78468,"date":"2026-01-05T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78468\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:31:22","slug":"suspect-sought-for-attempted-abduction-near-school-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78468\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought for attempted abduction near school in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton police seek a male \u2014 wearing a black face mask \u2014 driving a silver Hyundai Elantra with tinted windows and a license plate tag of LYK1711 that was reported stolen from the 500 block of Cedar Avenue, according to department.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the male was involved with attempted abduction incidents on the 500 block of East Elm Street and in front of South Scranton Intermediate School Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scranton Police are on the lookout for a silver Hyundai Elantra, with tinted windows, tag LYK1711. The vehicle was reported stolen from 500 block of Cedar Avenue. A male driver with a black face mask is wanted for an attempted abduction on the 500 block of East Elm St. and in front of South Scranton Intermediate School.\" width=\"2048\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-L-ABDUCTION-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1512631\" \/>Scranton Police are on the lookout for a silver Hyundai Elantra, with tinted windows, tag LYK1711. The vehicle was reported stolen from 500 block of Cedar Avenue. A male driver with a black face mask is wanted for an attempted abduction on the 500 block of East Elm St. and in front of South Scranton Intermediate School.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scranton Police are on the lookout for a silver Hyundai Elantra, with tinted windows, tag LYK1711. The vehicle was reported stolen from 500 block of Cedar Avenue. A male driver with a black face mask is wanted for an attempted abduction on the 500 block of East Elm St. and in front of South Scranton Intermediate School.\" width=\"2048\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-L-ABDUCTION-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1512632\" \/>Scranton Police are on the lookout for a silver Hyundai Elantra, with tinted windows, tag LYK1711. The vehicle was reported stolen from 500 block of Cedar Avenue. A male driver with a black face mask is wanted for an attempted abduction on the 500 block of East Elm St. and in front of South Scranton Intermediate School.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Note issued by the Scranton School District Monday morning.\" width=\"819\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-L-INCIDENT-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1512633\" \/>Note issued by the Scranton School District Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton School District released a statement informing families that there will be an increased police presence around all school buildings throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>School officials also encourage parents guardians to pick up students on time and, if possible, walk their children home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police seek a male \u2014 wearing a black face mask \u2014 driving a silver Hyundai Elantra with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,139,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-78468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468","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=78468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}