{"id":138629,"date":"2026-03-15T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138629\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:13:09","slug":"coroner-man-who-fled-from-police-found-dead-in-lehigh-river-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138629\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Man who fled from police found dead in Lehigh River | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON, Pa. &#8211; The man who fled from police into the Lehigh River on Thursday has been found dead on Saturday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old man from Northampton was pronounced dead on Saturday at 4:20 p.m. at the scene in the 200 block of North 2nd Street in Coplay, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>He was recovered from the Lehigh River in approximately nine feet of water, the coroner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recovery teams were called to the area of Canal Street Park, coroner Dan Buglio said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy will be performed on Tuesday at the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office and Forensic Center to determine the cause and manner of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coroner says that his identity will not be released at this time as this is an active and ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON, Pa. &#8211; The man who fled from police into the Lehigh River on Thursday has been found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,5750,434],"class_list":["post-138629","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\/138629","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=138629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}