Lehigh University police responding early Sunday to a call for broken glass at a sorority house arrested a male suspect on burglary and related charges.<\/p>\n
University police Chief Jason Schiffer shared details of the incident in a safety bulletin sent out Sunday afternoon through the Bethlehem school\u2019s HawkWatch alert system<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Lehigh student residing at the Alpha Phi, 98 Upper Sayre Park Road, called the university police department at 5:37 a.m. Sunday after finding broken glass at the sorority house, according to the bulletin.<\/p>\n Responding officers found a door had been forcibly opened, and a search of the building revealed the male intruder who was taken into custody. <\/p>\n \u201cHe was confirmed to be a non-Lehigh student,\u201d Schiffer wrote in the bulletin. \u201cOur investigation revealed the individual has a connection to the house. The individual responsible was immediately taken into custody and there is no continuing threat to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n The Northampton County District Attorney\u2019s Office authorized charges of burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and public drunkenness.<\/p>\n Authorities did not immediately release the individual\u2019s name or indicate whether he was arraigned before a district judge.<\/p>\n A university contractor responded to repair the door and broken glass.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh University police responding early Sunday to a call for broken glass at a sorority house arrested a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,591],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-merlinmigration2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","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=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}