{"id":103961,"date":"2026-02-03T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:44:13","slug":"distracting-theft-scheme-targets-shoppers-at-easton-stores-police-say-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103961\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracting theft scheme targets shoppers at Easton stores, police say | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"all 3 suspects.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6980fce2d67af.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of CrimeWatch<\/p>\n<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; On January 31 at around 5 p.m., Forks Township police were dispatched to a Giant in Easton for a reported theft.<\/p>\n<p>The store is located at 301 Town Center Boulevard, according to a press release from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, officers were also dispatched to Weis Markets for a theft report. Officers say they determined that both incidents appeared to be related and involved the same suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Police say in both instances, victims were distracted by a man, while another man stole personal items from the victims. The suspects left the scenes in a silver Kia Sorrento, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"suspect_vehicle.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6980fd057a9a9.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of CrimeWatch<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they are attempting to identify the pictured men in reference to the two theft investigations.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information regarding the suspects\/vehicle, authorities ask you contact 610-759-2200 or submit a tip through Crimewatch. All tips may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of CrimeWatch EASTON, Pa. &#8211; On January 31 at around 5 p.m., Forks Township police were dispatched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2181,38197,5478,1021,206,436,450,209,17499],"class_list":{"0":"post-103961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-easton","12":"tag-forks-township","13":"tag-giant","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-retail","17":"tag-suspect","18":"tag-theft","19":"tag-weis-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103961","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=103961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}