{"id":86574,"date":"2026-01-14T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:26:22","slug":"felony-assault-charge-withdrawn-against-jenkins-township-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86574\/","title":{"rendered":"Felony assault charge withdrawn against Jenkins Township man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A Jenkins Township man accused by Jenkins Township police with aiming a firearm at a woman and her daughter had the most serious charges withdrawn against him during a preliminary hearing in Luzerne County Central Court.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Michael Sekusky, 40, of Charles Place, after investigating a domestic disturbance at his residence on Oct. 25, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>A woman told police she was involved in an argument with Sekusky and went to the garage, where the child told her, \u201che has a gun,\u201d court records allege.<\/p>\n<p>The woman allegedly told police Sekusky said to her, \u201cthis is it,\u201dand aimed the firearm at her.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors withdrew a felony aggravated assault offense and misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and terroristic threats against Sekusky.<\/p>\n<p>Sekusky waived a misdemeanor charge of criminal attempt to commit simple assault to the Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A Jenkins Township man accused by Jenkins Township police with aiming a firearm at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-86574","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\/86574","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=86574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}