NORTHAMPTON, Pa. – A body was found in the Lehigh River in the Northampton area on Saturday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recovery teams were called to the area of Canal Street Park, coroner Dan Buglio said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There has been no confirmation at this point of the identity of the person who was recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Thursday, a man was seen by authorities going into the Lehigh River in the Northampton area to avoid arrest after being served a warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man was seen going into the river and was never seen coming out, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Friday, the man who fled police by going into the river was still missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coroner Dan Buglio could not confirm if the body that was found is connected to the search on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the air and on web for the latest updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON, Pa. – A body was found in the Lehigh River in the Northampton area on Saturday, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,5750,434],"class_list":["post-138592","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","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138592","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=138592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}