{"id":155502,"date":"2026-04-02T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:15:38","slug":"rape-lehigh-valley-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155502\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 31. 2026 11:59AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces two men charged in a 2025 Slatington rape and false imprisonment investigation have pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Jacquan Tanasse, 21, and Tristan Zawick, 23, both pleaded guilty to charges of rape, conspiracy to commit rape, false imprisonment and conspiracy to false imprisonment. Tanasse also pleaded guilty to a Strangulation charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Zawick faces a possible maximum sentence of 54 years in state prison. Tanasse faces a possible maximum sentence of 44 years in prison. Both defendants are scheduled to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. May 28 before Judge James T. Anthony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Just before 7 p.m. Feb. 7, 2025, Slatington police were called to a home in the 200 block of Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A 17-year-old female told police Tanasse and Zawick had raped her in the basement of the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The victim told police the two men raped her, physically restrained her and wrapped a cord around her wrists and a shirt was stuffed in her mouth. She also told police that during the assault, Tanasse choked her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This case was investigated by Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Special Victims Unit Detective Thomas Galloway and Slatington Police. The cases were prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney Sarah K. Heimbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 31. 2026 11:59AM District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces two men charged in a 2025 Slatington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-155502","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\/155502","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=155502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}