{"id":13257,"date":"2025-10-24T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13257\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:55:08","slug":"lehigh-county-district-attorney-withdraws-charges-against-former-allentown-police-officer-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13257\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County District Attorney withdraws charges against former Allentown police officer \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 23. 2025 11:35PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In a press release dated Oct. 17, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced theft and related charges have been withdrawn against a former Allentown Police vice officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In January, Jason Krasley, of Upper Milford Township, was charged with theft by unlawful taking \u2014 moveable property, receiving stolen property and tampering with or fabricating evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cIn a hearing today before Judge Thomas M. Caffrey, all charges were withdrawn due to prosecutorial discretion,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The charges reportedly had stemmed from an incident at the business Washington Barbershop, Hamilton Street, Allentown, in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to a press release from the district attorney\u2019s office in November 2024, cocaine, cash, drug paraphernalia and other items were seized at the time of raid on the barbershop by Allentown police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Oct. 17 press release ends as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cThis office will not comment further about the withdrawal of charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 23. 2025 11:35PM In a press release dated Oct. 17, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-13257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13257","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=13257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}