{"id":158283,"date":"2026-04-06T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:29:18","slug":"state-police-arrest-bethlehem-man-for-possessing-child-sexual-abuse-material-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158283\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police arrest Bethlehem man for possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2026, State Police of Latham, with the assistance of the Troop G Computer Crimes Unit, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, arrested\u00a0Samuel A. Stothart,\u00a021, of Bethlehem, NY, for Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child, a class \u201cE\u201d felony.<\/p>\n<p>Stothart\u00a0is accused of possessing images consistent with child sexual exploitation. \u00a0His arrest followed an investigation and the execution of a search warrant at his residence in Bethlehem, NY on March 26, 2026. The investigation stemmed from a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).<\/p>\n<p>Stothart was arrested and processed at SP Latham. He\u00a0was issued an appearance ticket returnable to the Bethlehem Town Court on April 21, 2026, and released.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On March 26, 2026, State Police of Latham, with the assistance of the Troop G Computer Crimes Unit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-158283","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\/158283","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=158283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}