UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pa. – An Allentown man has been convicted by a jury on charges he strangled the mother of his child and told her not to testify during his trial, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dallas Young, 31, of Allentown, was charged in December 2024 with felony charges of Strangulation \u2013 Applying Pressure to Throat or Neck and Endangering the Welfare of Children \u2013 Parent Commits Offense and lesser charges of Simple Assault and Harassment, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not long after his arrest, Young was also charged with misdemeanor charges of Intimidation of Witness\/Victim Elude\/Evade\/Ignore and Intimidation of Witness\/Victim \u2013 Disobey Summons, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jurors delivered their verdict in less than an hour. Young is scheduled for sentencing at 1:30 p.m. May 20. Young faces a possible sentence of 16 \u00bd to 33 years in state prison, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This case was investigated as a domestic assault and the victims\u2019 names will not be released.<\/p>\n
Shortly after noon on Dec. 11, 2024, Upper Macungie Township Police were called to a domestic assault at in the 5000 block of W. Tilghman St.<\/p>\n
The victim, who has a child with Young, said they were having a verbal argument about Young\u2019s vehicle being broke down when the argument turned physical, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said Young choked her with his hands, lifting her off the ground twice. Each time, she told police she nearly lost consciousness and could not breathe, the news release details.<\/p>\n
She said Young also struck her in the face, causing bruising and swelling, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the fight, she told police that Young pushed her into the high chair where their toddler child was strapped into causing the chair to fall to the ground, the DA’s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim recorded a portion of the assault on her cell phone.<\/p>\n
Soon after Young was taken to Lehigh County Jail, he called the victim repeatedly and told her not to come to court because the case against him could not proceed, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although the jail\u2019s policy states that inmates are not permitted to contact their victims, an investigation revealed 1,200 phone calls between Young and the victim, the news release details.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During those calls, Young repeatedly told the victim not to show up for court, to lock the doors and ignore the requests of prosecutors and police, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because of that intimidation, the victim refused to cooperate with the prosecution and failed to appear to testify in court, according to the DA’s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by Upper Macungie Police Detective John Sassaman III and Lehigh County Detective Gail Struss and was prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney Ashley N. Troxell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pa. – An Allentown man has been convicted by a jury on charges he strangled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,31],"class_list":["post-154923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154923","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=154923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}