{"id":117527,"date":"2026-02-18T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:06:10","slug":"man-accused-of-selling-crack-cocaine-in-easton-taken-into-custody-after-trying-to-flee-police-authorities-say-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117527\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of selling crack cocaine in Easton taken into custody after trying to flee police, authorities say | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Police in Easton say a man suspected of selling crack cocaine in the downtown area has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Officers saw Jamarcus Fennel in the 300 block of Palmer Street around noon Tuesday, according to a news release from the Easton Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Fennel fled and was taken into custody after a foot pursuit, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>He is being charged with delivery of a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility, fleeing and eluding police, and driving while suspended, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>City police said he is now facing additional charges of escape and resisting arrest. He was arraigned on all charges and taken to Northampton County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Easton police vice detectives had previously attempted to take Fennel into custody during a vehicle stop, but he fled police at a high rate of speed, according to the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Police in Easton say a man suspected of selling crack cocaine in the downtown area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1646,153,155,154,20950,5876,2181,55789,13925],"class_list":{"0":"post-117527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-crack-cocaine","13":"tag-drug-trafficking","14":"tag-easton","15":"tag-jamarcus-fennel","16":"tag-northampton-county-prison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527","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=117527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}