{"id":171048,"date":"2026-04-20T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:50:27","slug":"agents-find-fugitive-hiding-under-blankets-at-bethlehem-home-man-charged-with-terroristic-assaults-having-child-pornography-ags-office-says-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171048\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents find fugitive hiding under blankets at Bethlehem home, man charged with terroristic assaults, having child pornography, AG\u2019s office says | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General agents found a wanted fugitive from Northampton County hiding under blankets on a child\u2019s bed, according to a news release from the AG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Noel A. Tirado, 41, is in custody after the agents served a warrant at an acquaintance\u2019s home in Bethlehem, the AG\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s office said Tirado was wearing a gun holster, and a loaded 9mm handgun was concealed in a nearby bedroom in a dresser drawer.<\/p>\n<p>He had warrants out of Lehigh, Northampton, and Monroe counties for escape, terroristic threats, and simple assault, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AG\u2019s office, Tirado is also charged with manufacturing and possession of child sexual abuse material. At arraignment, bail was set at $1 million cash.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Attorney General\u2019s Child Predator Section discovered that Tirado had manufactured video recordings of a very young child known to him, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s office said Tirado also had other videos and photos of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to sexual abuse of children, Tirado is charged with possession of a prohibited firearm and criminal use of a communication facility, according to the AG\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur agents located and removed from the community a dangerous fugitive who is facing new charges for creating child sexual abuse material and for having a loaded gun while wanted by law enforcement,\u201d Attorney General Dave Sunday said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank our local police partners for assisting in this warrant service and ensuring this offender was taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General agents found a wanted fugitive from Northampton County hiding under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1646,153,155,154,7259,2223,28,2493],"class_list":["post-171048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-arrest","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-child-pornography","tag-fugitive","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171048","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=171048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}