{"id":85051,"date":"2026-01-12T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:50:07","slug":"court-date-delayed-for-s-c-man-accused-of-running-over-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85051\/","title":{"rendered":"Court date delayed for S.C. man accused of running over girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary hearing for a South Carolina man accused of running over his girlfriend with his car, originally set for Monday, has been rescheduled to Feb. 17 at 9 a.m., court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Garcia, 18, of Sumter, faces two charges of aggravated assault and remains in Lackawanna County Prison without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the rear of 1131 W. Locust St., Roundwoods Place, West Scranton, Dec. 29 at about 3:45 p.m. for a report of a woman who was not breathing, according to the criminal complaint. There police found Rose Hernandez, 18, in a puddle of blood and bleeding from the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to Geisinger Community Medical Center\u2019s Trauma Unit, where she was pronounced dead. Her injuries were consistent with having been hit by a motor vehicle and there were tire marks on her clothing, police said. An autopsy deemed the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"GARCIA (Submitted)\" width=\"980\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-L-GARCIA-1231-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1519639\" \/>GARCIA (Submitted)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The preliminary hearing for a South Carolina man accused of running over his girlfriend with his car, originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-85051","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051","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=85051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}