{"id":81459,"date":"2026-01-08T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:47:06","slug":"teen-charged-in-connection-with-stolen-vehicle-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81459\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged in connection with stolen vehicle in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old faces charges including theft of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and fleeing and eluding police.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A teen faces charges in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/scranton-abduction-attempt-south-side-school-police-search-stolen-car-bolo\/523-3f0395f5-4767-464a-8a03-206ad85f3449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">stolen vehicle in Scranton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers initially responded to Maple Street near South Scranton Intermediate School Monday morning for reports of an attempted abduction. Surveillance footage from the area showed a silver Hyundai Elantra and an individual walking along Cedar Avenue shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Through investigation, police found it was not an attempted abduction, but instead a 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole the Elantra and was trying to recruit other local youths to help steal vehicles in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also believe the teen has been involved in other vehicle thefts in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released the identity of the teen but say he faces charges of theft of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, possessing instruments of a crime, fleeing and eluding police, and loitering and prowling at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is currently being held at a facility in Northampton County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old faces charges including theft of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and fleeing and eluding police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-81459","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\/81459","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=81459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}