{"id":153138,"date":"2026-03-31T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153138\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:49:07","slug":"lehigh-county-commissioner-facing-felony-drug-charges-due-in-court-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153138\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County commissioner facing felony drug charges due in court | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County commissioner accused of dealing cocaine and other drugs is due in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Cole-Borghi will have a preliminary hearing as he faces more than 100 felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from a major drug bust last year, where 41 people were charged.<\/p>\n<p>Among the accusations, he is accused of setting up a drug deal in the middle of a County Commissioner&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Cole-Borghi&#8217;s hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County commissioner accused of dealing cocaine and other drugs is due in court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4361,5559,14523,433,67818],"class_list":{"0":"post-153138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-commissioner","12":"tag-drug-charges","13":"tag-felony","14":"tag-lehigh-county","15":"tag-zachary-cole-borghi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153138","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=153138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}