{"id":137999,"date":"2026-03-14T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:05:09","slug":"man-leaps-into-lehigh-river-to-evade-police-remains-missing-since-thursday-nazareth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137999\/","title":{"rendered":"Man leaps into Lehigh River to evade police, remains missing since Thursday | Nazareth Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH, Pa. (WFMZ) &#8211; Police say that the man who ran into the Lehigh River on Thursday after being served a warrant has still not been found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coplay police chief Ryan Emerich told 69 News that it is unknown at this time if the dive team will search the river again during the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Northampton County man was served an arrest warrant by Lehigh County deputies before running from law enforcement and then jumping into the river, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man went under water, authorities said. Dispatchers say that the person in the water is a black male wearing a yellow and blue hoodie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coplay police chief Emerich says another update will be sent out on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH, Pa. (WFMZ) &#8211; Police say that the man who ran into the Lehigh River on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,5750],"class_list":["post-137999","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-crime","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137999","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=137999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}