SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 19-year-old Dickson City man has been taken into custody as part of an ongoing death investigation in Scranton.<\/p>\n
Scranton Police said detectives arrested James Michael \u201cJB\u201d Barbarino on Friday with assistance from the Dickson City and Throop police departments. Authorities located Barbarino at a residence in Dickson City, where he was wanted on multiple felony charges related to a stolen firearm.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the firearm was reported stolen from a home in Archbald on November 30, 2025. Police later recovered the weapon on December 12 during a death investigation on Bryn Mawr Street in Scranton.<\/p>\n
As a result of the investigation, Barbarino has been charged with several offenses, including receiving stolen property, illegal sale of firearms, selling a firearm to an ineligible individual, criminal use of a communications facility, and theft by unlawful taking.<\/p>\n
Police emphasized that the death investigation remains active. Detectives are continuing to work the case and are seeking assistance from the public.<\/p>\n
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Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Scranton Police detectives at 570-348-4139. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the department\u2019s online tip system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 19-year-old Dickson City man has been taken into custody as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-86201","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\/86201","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=86201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}