{"id":79267,"date":"2026-01-06T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:23:08","slug":"police-make-an-arrest-in-connection-with-reported-abduction-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79267\/","title":{"rendered":"Police make an arrest in connection with reported abduction attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton police made an arrest overnight in connection with a reported attempted abduction in South Scranton Monday, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest follows the attempted abduction in the 500 block of East Elm Street and in front of the South Scranton Intermediate School Monday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Following that attempt, police announced they were looking for a suspect wearing a black face mask and announced an increased police presence at all district schools throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, police announced they had located a Hyundai Elantra with tinted windows, they believed were involved in the attempted abduction and had been reported stolen from the 500 block of Cedar Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>School officials also encouraged parents and guardians to pick up students on time and, if possible, walk their children home during Monday\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the release which posted to Facebook, dozens of parents responded with gratitude for the department\u2019s quick response in keeping students safe.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation was ongoing and did not name a suspect in the release Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police made an arrest overnight in connection with a reported attempted abduction in South Scranton Monday, according&hellip;\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],"class_list":{"0":"post-79267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79267","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=79267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79267\/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=79267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}