{"id":145975,"date":"2026-03-23T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:41:08","slug":"palmer-twp-police-looking-for-man-accused-of-choking-punching-girlfriend-as-he-was-driving-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145975\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Twp. police looking for man accused of choking, punching girlfriend as he was driving | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County are accusing a man of choking and punching his girlfriend while he was driving.<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for Derrick Charles Furman, 34, who is charged with strangulation, simple assault, harassment, and driving while having a suspended or revoked driver\u2019s license, according to a news release from the Palmer Township Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A township police officer was conducting a business check, when he saw a woman running away from a vehicle near an intersection shortly after 9:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the officer she was choked and punched by her boyfriend, inside their vehicle as he was driving, according to township police.<\/p>\n<p>Township police said the woman had visible injuries to her face and arms.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is described as having black hair and brown eyes, and being 5-foot-10 and weighing 160 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has information regarding Furman\u2019s whereabouts, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/pa\/northampton\/palmer-twp-pd\/44270\/submit-tip?name=Furman%2C%20Derrick%20Charles%20&amp;nid=356000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">they can submit a tip<\/a> or dial 911 and provide a description of his current location and what he is wearing to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County are accusing a man of choking and punching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11228,153,155,154,66535,5835,434,2182,25093],"class_list":["post-145975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-assault","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-derrick-charles-furman","tag-domestic-violence","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-strangulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145975","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=145975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}