Published April 01. 2026 09:53AM<\/p>\n
District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced March 25 additional criminal charges have been filed against Lehigh County Commissioner Zachary Cole- Borghi.<\/p>\n
Cole-Borghi was one of several defendants in a large-scale drug investigation involving Lehigh County\u2019s 12th Investigating Grand Jury.<\/p>\n
As those details were announced last year, the investigation remained ongoing.<\/p>\n
As part of that investigation, search warrants were approved for Cole- Borghi\u2019s cellphone and Apple iCloud records.<\/p>\n
A forensic analysis of the cellphone and Apple iCloud records revealed text messages beginning in 2021 and ending in August 2025.<\/p>\n
Those text messages allegedly showed Cole- Borghi conducting drug transactions beginning in November 2023 through August 2025.<\/p>\n
Those text messages indicate Cole-Borghi allegedly used his cellphone to conduct drug deals beginning in November 2023 through August 2025.<\/p>\n
The locations those crimes occurred include Cole-Borghi\u2019s home in the 700 block of Spring Street, Bethlehem, Lehigh County; a relative\u2019s home in the 300 block of Sixth Avenue in Bethlehem, Lehigh County; Bethlehem City Hall where Cole-Borghi was employed, Northampton County and Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The investigation also revealed Cole-Borghi allegedly facilitated a drug transaction during a meeting of the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n
The new criminal charges include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 89 counts of criminal use of a communications facility.<\/p>\n
\u2022 14 counts of delivery of a controlled substance (cocaine).<\/p>\n
\u2022 One count delivery of controlled substance (Psilocybin mushrooms).<\/p>\n
The investigation revealed an alleged cocaine sale at Northampton County Community College while Cole-Borghi was attending the \u201cPeace and Justice Symposium\u201d presented by the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute.<\/p>\n
The investigation also revealed Cole-Borghi allegedly purchased and sold cocaine from his home and while working at Bethlehem City Hall.<\/p>\n
Each charge of criminal use of a communications facility alleges Cole-Borghi used a \u201ccommunication facility\u201d such as a cellphone, to commit, cause, facilitate or attempt to facilitate a felony drug offense.<\/p>\n
Cole-Borghi was taken into custody March 25 in the City of Bethlehem and was transported to Lehigh County\u2019s Central Booking Center.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned and bail in the four new criminal cases has been set at $500,000 straight.<\/p>\n
These cases were investigated by the Lehigh County Drug Task Force and will be prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorneys Craig W. Scheetz and Kevin P. McCloskey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 01. 2026 09:53AM District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced March 25 additional criminal charges have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-154771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154771","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=154771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}