COPLAY, Pa. – The search continues for a man who police say was last seen running into the Lehigh River right after authorities served him a warrant.<\/p>\n
Crews around the region started searching the water near Whitehall, Coplay and Northampton late Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the search now appears to be a recovery effort.<\/p>\n
Police say they are notifying the man’s next-of-kin, only to find out if there’s any new information that his family has.<\/p>\n
Investigators say they want to make sure the man hasn’t made any other contact or tried to escape the area.<\/p>\n
“Until I recover a body. I’m not entirely satisfied that, you know, this person has had a bad outcome,” said Coplay Police Chief Ryan Emerich.<\/p>\n
Search and recovery efforts continue for hours in Northampton Borough.<\/p>\n
A 911 calls detailing the moments authorities lost sight of the man.<\/p>\n
“Now it looks like he’s struggling in the river,” said dispatchers on a recording.<\/p>\n
“They do not believe he made it entirely across the river,” said Emerich.<\/p>\n
Emerich says between the steep terrain and the speed of the water, if a person tried to grab a hold of a branch for safety, it would rip out of the ground.<\/p>\n
“That current is going, we saw some ducks and other animals, and they are just flying down that river,” said Emerich.<\/p>\n
Several boats have been dispatched and investigators have been using underwater sonar.<\/p>\n
Investigators say they’ve exhausted their options and might resume the search if they get new leads.<\/p>\n
Police are asking for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPLAY, Pa. – The search continues for a man who police say was last seen running into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-136948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136948","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=136948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}