Published April 15. 2026 11:05AM<\/p>\n
Guilty plea announced in large-scale burglary ring<\/p>\n
An Allentown man pleaded guilty to his part in what authorities described as \u201ca large-scale burglary ring that targeted numerous homes in Lehigh County and the surrounding areas,\u201d according to a press release dated April 9.<\/p>\n
Roger Juan Tirado, 53, pleaded guilty April 6 to felony charges of alleged corrupt organizations, receiving stolen property, person not to possess a firearm and 16 counts of burglary.<\/p>\n
Tirado is scheduled to be sentenced June 4.<\/p>\n
His sentence may range from 137 \u00bd to 357 years, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2024, Tirado was one of several people charged in a burglary ring that included stolen items valued at more than $160,000 and crimes that occurred in Lehigh, Berks and Northampton counties as well at least one home in New Jersey,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County law enforcement agencies started investigating burglaries and attempted burglaries at homes in Allentown, Bethlehem, Emmaus, Lower Macungie Township, Salisbury Township, South Whitehall Township, Upper Saucon Township, Upper Milford Township and Whitehall Township in 2019.<\/p>\n
Patterns were noticed in methods used in the burglaries such as:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Prying open doors and windows to get in or getting in through an unlocked door<\/p>\n
\u2022 Breaking in during daylight hours<\/p>\n
\u2022 Breaking in when residents and children were home<\/p>\n
\u201cItems recovered included more than 30 firearms, jewelry, coins, financial documents and electronics,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n
Several other defendants charged in this investigation had previously pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n
Additional investigating agencies include Pennsylvania State Police and Whitehall Township Police and South Whitehall Township Police detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 15. 2026 11:05AM Guilty plea announced in large-scale burglary ring An Allentown man pleaded guilty to…\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-166756","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\/166756","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=166756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166756\/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=166756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}