{"id":125388,"date":"2026-02-27T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:57:51","slug":"2-accused-of-burglarizing-hellertown-convenience-stores-20000-worth-of-items-stolen-police-say-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125388\/","title":{"rendered":"2 accused of burglarizing Hellertown convenience stores, $20,000 worth of items stolen, police say | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELLERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in a Northampton County borough are accusing two people of stealing more than $20,000 from two convenience stores on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Damion M. Christian, 18, and Michael A. Pritt, 38, both of Wynnewood, face several charges, including burglary and theft, the Hellertown Police Department said in a news release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two stole from the Top Star Express and plaza Sunoco stores, both of which are in Hellertown.<\/p>\n<p>More than $20,000 worth of items were taken, and both commercial store fronts were damaged, borough police said.<\/p>\n<p>Borough police said similar burglaries also happened in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, and East Whiteland Township in Chester County.<\/p>\n<p>Police issued arrest warrants for Christian and Pritt on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Pritt remains at large, while Christian is expected to surrender to police early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELLERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in a Northampton County borough are accusing two people of stealing more than $20,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2899,411,15486,58695,204,17745,434,9407,209,58696],"class_list":{"0":"post-125388","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-arrest-warrant","12":"tag-burglary","13":"tag-convenience-store","14":"tag-east-whiteland-township","15":"tag-hellertown","16":"tag-montgomery-township","17":"tag-northampton-county","18":"tag-sunoco","19":"tag-theft","20":"tag-top-star-express"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125388","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=125388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}