{"id":142370,"date":"2026-03-19T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:19:09","slug":"lower-saucon-police-seeking-public-help-after-man-flees-traffic-stop-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142370\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Saucon police seeking public help after man flees traffic stop | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The Lower Saucon Township police department is seeking the public&#8217;s help in identifying a man who fled police after being pulled over during a traffic stop on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"snapshot 2.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bb078f2351c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the Lower Saucon Police Department<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, a traffic stop was conducted at the intersection of Old Philadelphia Pike and Route 378, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The operator of the car, a man, quickly exited the car and began questioning the officer prior to being approached, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that the unidentified man then re-entered his car, placed it in reverse, and fled at a high speed south on Old Philadelphia Pike.<\/p>\n<p>The car was last seen turning right onto Seidersville Road towards Salisbury Township, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that the registration plate pictured does not belong on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information, police are asking that you submit a tip through their Crimewatch Tipline or contact Officer Pritchard at 610-317-6110 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/bethlehem-area\/lower-saucon-police-seeking-public-help-after-man-flees-traffic-stop\/mailto:zpritchard@lowersaucontownship.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zpritchard@lowersaucontownship.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The Lower Saucon Township police department is seeking the public&#8217;s help in identifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,31],"class_list":["post-142370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370","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=142370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}