{"id":129166,"date":"2026-03-04T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:11:24","slug":"student-charged-in-bomb-threat-at-allentown-middle-school-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129166\/","title":{"rendered":"Student charged in bomb threat at Allentown middle school | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A juvenile is facing serious charges after allegedly making a bomb threat against an Allentown middle school.<\/p>\n<p>Just before noon today, officers from Allentown Police Department responded to Trexler Middle School for a report of a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p>Police, along with the Allentown Fire Department, conducted a sweep of the school<\/p>\n<p>using a police canine team trained to detect explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>Following an extensive search of the building and grounds, police say no suspicious packages were located.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation determined the bomb threat to be a hoax, and a juvenile male student was identified as the suspect who made the threat.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody without incident and charged with terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A juvenile is facing serious charges after allegedly making a bomb threat against an Allentown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,644,121,120,2602,24800,34417,28,32406],"class_list":["post-129166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fire-department","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police-department","tag-bomb-threat","tag-explosive-devices","tag-pennsylvania","tag-trexler-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129166","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=129166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}