{"id":152356,"date":"2026-03-30T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:14:09","slug":"bethlehem-man-accused-of-possessing-child-sexual-exploitation-images-after-cyber-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152356\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem man accused of possessing child sexual exploitation images after cyber tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem, NY (WRGB) \u2014 New York State Police arrested a Bethlehem man March 24, 2026, after an investigation into alleged child sexual exploitation images that began with a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24, 2026, State Police of Latham, with assistance from the Troop G Computer Crimes Unit, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, arrested 29-year-old Nathan Cardinale of Bethlehem, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Cardinale is accused of promoting and possessing images consistent with child sexual exploitation. Cardinale was charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child, a class D felony, and possessing a sexual performance by a child, a class E felony.<\/p>\n<p>State Police said the arrest followed an investigation and the execution of a search warrant at Cardinale\u2019s residence in Bethlehem on March 24, 2026. The investigation stemmed from a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Cardinale was arrested and processed at State Police Latham, then arraigned in Bethlehem Town Court. He was remanded to the Albany County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000 cash, $20,000 bond or a $40,000 partially secured bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem, NY (WRGB) \u2014 New York State Police arrested a Bethlehem man March 24, 2026, after an investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-152356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152356","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=152356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}