{"id":160550,"date":"2026-04-08T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160550\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:09:09","slug":"macungie-man-sentenced-to-state-prison-term-in-overdose-death-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160550\/","title":{"rendered":"Macungie man sentenced to state prison term in overdose death \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published April 08. 2026 11:51AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A Macungie man will serve 5 to 15 years in state prison in the overdose death of a woman to whom he sold pills containing what authorities described as a \u201cfatal amount of fentanyl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Nathaniel Tilahun, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 2 to a felony charge of drug delivery resulting in a death, according to a press release from the Office of the Lehigh County District Attorney dated March 6, the day of his sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Authorities outlined the case as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">On Oct. 5, 2022, Alburtis police officers were called to a residence along West Second Street in the borough for an unresponsive person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A 23-year-old female, identified as Caylin Strong who lived there, was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Lehigh County Coroner determined Strong died from fentanyl toxicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Her death was ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police investigation found Strong \u201creceived pills sold by Tilahun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cAlthough the pills were purported to be Percocet, the fake pills contained a fatal amount of fentanyl,\u201d according the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Percocet is a prescription pain medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Tilahun faces five years probation upon completion of his sentence, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 08. 2026 11:51AM A Macungie man will serve 5 to 15 years in state prison in&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-160550","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\/160550","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=160550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160550\/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=160550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}