Four teens assaulted a man and stole his shoes during a robbery Tuesday afternoon in Allentown, according to police.<\/p>\n
According to police, an SUV drove up to the victim about 2 p.m. in the area of 15th and Turner streets, and one of the occupants challenged him to a fight. At the same time, another occupant of the SUV, 42-year-old Latiyah Leavell, pointed a handgun at the man and then fired it into the air, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Four teenage boys got out of the SUV, chased the man down and beat him up. They forcefully removed his sneakers and fled the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators found the SUV shortly after in the 1400 block of Turner Street. A handgun and the sneakers were found in the vehicle, police say in a news release.<\/p>\n
Levell is charged with terroristic threats, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person, all of which are misdemeanors. She was sent to Lehigh County Jail on $15,000 bail.<\/p>\n
The teens \u2014 a 14-year-old and three 15-year-olds \u2014 are charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit that offense, as well as misdemeanor offenses of theft, receiving stolen property and simple assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four teens assaulted a man and stole his shoes during a robbery Tuesday afternoon in Allentown, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-166458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166458","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=166458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}