A Scranton man beat up his girlfriend, leaving her bloody and with two black eyes, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Joseph Soriano, 31, faces charges of assault and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n
According to the authorities, at about 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, city officers were called to Prospect Avenue for the report of a domestic assault. When officers arrived, a female was pointing at a vehicle backing up toward Prospect Avenue from Beech Street, with Soriano at the wheel.<\/p>\n
Officers ordered Soriano to stop, but he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Officer Patrick Vanwie drew his service weapon and approached the moving car, ordering Soriano to stop and show his hands. Soriano initially hesitated, but then did come to a stop. Police removed a female from the back seat, later identified as Soriano\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n
The woman was crying and had two black eyes.<\/p>\n
Soriano kept asking, \u201cWhat did I do?\u201d when officers removed him from his vehicle. He repeatedly asked to speak with his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Officers spoke with the victim, who was reluctant to tell her story.<\/p>\n
With encouragement from a friend, she told police that Soriano had beaten her up about an hour before inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
She said he punched her three times in the face and pulled her hair in an attempt to drag her out of the car.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical responders then escorted her to an ambulance, where she disclosed Soriano hit her so hard that she lost a tooth and swallowed it.<\/p>\n
She was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center for evaluation.<\/p>\n
Officer Jack Carroll searched Soriano\u2019s vehicle and found blood on the seats and near the driver\u2019s side door.<\/p>\n
Soriano remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on Jan. 27 before District Judge Alyce Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man beat up his girlfriend, leaving her bloody and with two black eyes, according to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46923,"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-94000","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\/94000","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=94000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}