{"id":172990,"date":"2026-04-22T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:57:11","slug":"man-used-baseball-bat-in-robbery-at-downtown-allentown-park-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172990\/","title":{"rendered":"Man used baseball bat in robbery at downtown Allentown park, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man used a baseball bat to rob someone early Wednesday morning in a city park, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Fields, 46, robbed someone about 4:30 a.m. in the Arts Park on North Fifth Street, between Linden and Hamilton streets in the city\u2019s downtown, according to a police news release. He took money from the person, then left, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Fields shortly after with the bat and the money, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fields is charged with robbery and misdemeanors of simple assault, receiving stolen property, theft and disorderly conduct. He was sent to Lehigh County Jail on $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man used a baseball bat to rob someone early Wednesday morning in a city park, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-172990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172990","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=172990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172990\/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=172990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}