{"id":171193,"date":"2026-04-20T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:46:13","slug":"police-guns-drugs-cash-recovered-in-allentown-3-charged-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171193\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Guns, drugs, cash recovered in Allentown, 3 charged | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown say three people have been charged after guns and drugs were recovered Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Vice &amp; Intelligence Unit along with members of the Emergency Response Team conducted a search warrant in the 300 block of North Law Street.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, three firearms (AK-47 style pistol, AR-15 style pistol and 9mm handgun) were recovered, according to a news release from the Allentown Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also recovered a quantity of cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and cash, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say three people were charged:<\/p>\n<p>Andres Colon, 31, is charged with person not to possess, use, manufacture, control, or sell firearms,\u00a0 simple possession, and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Rivera, 37, faces charges of person not to possess, use, manufacture, control, or sell firearms,\u00a0possession with intent to deliver,\u00a0criminal conspiracy, and simple possession.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Alexander Peguero, 30, with intentional purchase of narcotics and simple possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown say three people have been charged after guns and drugs were recovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-171193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171193","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=171193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}