{"id":94837,"date":"2026-01-23T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:20:10","slug":"psp-investigating-suspicious-man-at-bus-stop-at-lackawanna-trail-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94837\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP investigating suspicious man at bus stop at Lackawanna Trail bus stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police say the report of a suspicious male at a Lackawanna Trail elementary school bus stop Thursday was the case of an elderly man who mistook a 10-year-old for his grandson.<\/p>\n<p>The original report indicated the boy was approached by a man in vehicle at a bus stop at the Tall Timbers Residential Community in LaPlume Township at about 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Parents were encouraged to be \u201chighly vigilant\u201d at district bus stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTroopers believe there was no malice or criminal nature surrounding this incident after a thorough investigation,\u201d troopers said in a release Friday.<\/p>\n<p>State police worked in coordination with the district to complete the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police say the report of a suspicious male at a Lackawanna Trail elementary school bus stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94838,"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-94837","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\/94837","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=94837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}