{"id":106765,"date":"2026-02-06T06:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:37:19","slug":"allentown-teen-arrested-after-allegedly-stabbing-burger-king-coworker-in-throat-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106765\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown teen arrested after allegedly stabbing Burger King coworker in throat | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown police say a Burger King worker was found with a stab wound to the throat when officers responded to the restaurant Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the Allentown Police Department, officers found the victim after being called to the restaurant at 1958 South Fourth Street around 6:14 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officers immediately rendered first aid, and the victim was taken to Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to locate the suspect, 18-year-old\u00a0Brinley Capellan-Lopez, who is also a Burger King employee.<\/p>\n<p>Brinley Capellan-Lopez of Allentown has been charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the charges related to the Burger King incident, Capellan-Lopez was recently charged with obstruction of justice in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/arrests-made-in-shooting-that-injured-woman-near-william-allen-high-school\/article_b069fcc9-3e5b-4e53-b414-f36f40779d8a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting near William Allen High School on May 21, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown police say a Burger King worker was found with a stab wound to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715,51413,21489,51414],"class_list":{"0":"post-106765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-allentown-police","12":"tag-brinley-capellan-lopez","13":"tag-burger-king","14":"tag-capellan-lopez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106765","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=106765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}