ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Police have charged two men after they say shots were fired in Allentown Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Members of the Allentown Police Department responded to the 300 Block of North Church Street for a report of shots being fired in the area around 7:30 p.m., according to a news release from city police.<\/p>\n
Officers found evidence of shots being fired in the area, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers made contact with the victims, who provided descriptions of the suspects. Police quickly located the suspects a short time later, taking them into custody without incident. A loaded firearm was recovered during the course of the investigation, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Authorities say no injuries were reported by anyone involved.<\/p>\n
Following the response and subsequent investigation, Hector Martinez, 34, of Emmaus, has been charged with Persons Not to Possess Firearms, Firearms Not to Be Carried Without a License, Aggravated Assault, and Recklessly Endangering Another Person.<\/p>\n
Joshua Martinez, 29, also of Emmaus, has been charged with Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Assault.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Police have charged two men after they say shots were fired in Allentown Tuesday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4862,119,121,120,1646,31,12968,3151,7653,1021,206,220],"class_list":["post-148244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-arrest","tag-crime","tag-criminal-conspiracy","tag-emmaus","tag-firearm","tag-investigation","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148244","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=148244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}