{"id":173318,"date":"2026-04-22T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:21:10","slug":"police-victim-robbed-of-cash-by-man-with-bat-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173318\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Victim robbed of cash by man with bat | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Police are investigating an early morning robbery involving a baseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a reported armed robbery in the area of N. 5th and Linden streets.<\/p>\n<p>The victim allegedly told police they were robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash in the Arts Park by a man armed with a baseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to locate and detain a man carrying a baseball bat and in possession of the suspected stolen money.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 46-year-old Ray Fields of Allentown, is charged with robbery, simple assault and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records list Fields as in the custody of Lehigh County Jail on $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Police are investigating an early morning robbery involving a baseball bat. Just before 4:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715,19351,28,77755],"class_list":["post-173318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-lehigh-county-jail","tag-pennsylvania","tag-ray-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173318","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=173318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}