{"id":160716,"date":"2026-04-08T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:12:02","slug":"lehigh-county-commissioner-out-on-bail-facing-multiple-drug-charges-crime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160716\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County commissioner out on bail facing multiple drug charges | Crime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh County commissioner who&#8217;s facing drug charges is currently out from behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show that Zach Cole-Borghi posted 50,000 dollars bail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was first arrested last summer and charged with marijuana possession as part of an investigation into a multi-state drug ring involving more than 40 other defendants.<\/p>\n<p>But last month, Cole-Borghi was hit with more than 100 new counts involving cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>His preliminary hearing on those charges has been postponed to a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh County commissioner who&#8217;s facing drug charges is currently out from behind bars. Court documents show that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,4958,31,433,805,434],"class_list":["post-160716","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-city_township_county_councils","tag-crime","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehighvalley","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160716","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=160716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}