{"id":165050,"date":"2026-04-14T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:17:10","slug":"police-allentown-man-arrested-after-shots-fired-at-vehicle-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165050\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Allentown man arrested after shots fired at vehicle | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown police say a man is facing charges after a shooting Monday afternoon near 4th and Washington Streets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from the police, around 1:15 p.m. officers were called to the area after several gunshots were reported. When patrol units arrived, they found spent shell casings in the 400 block of Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say a single suspect fired at a vehicle passing through the neighborhood. No one inside the vehicle was hit, and police say there is no evidence that anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect ran into a nearby home but was taken into custody shortly afterward. Officers say they also recovered the firearm used in the shooting inside the residence.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspect as 24\u2011year\u2011old Raymond Manuel Cruz of Allentown. He is charged with carrying a concealed firearm without a license and recklessly endangering another person, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown police say a man is facing charges after a shooting Monday afternoon near 4th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,1646,153,155,154,3229,31,7653,4824,1021,206,220,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-165050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-charges","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-firearm","16":"tag-gunshots","17":"tag-investigation","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-shooting","20":"tag-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165050","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=165050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}