{"id":174214,"date":"2026-04-23T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:41:07","slug":"bensalem-business-owner-charged-with-harassing-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174214\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem Business Owner Charged With Harassing Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township business owner has been charged with indecent assault and harassment after multiple instances of inappropriate behavior involving his employees, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police charged 59-year-old Larry Ferreira, the owner of Bagelocity Soup King, after being contacted by a former employee who reported ongoing workplace harassment and inappropriate conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The behavior included inappropriate physical contact with female employees, sexual harassment both in person and via cellphone communication, and ongoing verbal abuse spanning several years.<\/p>\n<p>Police interviewed several current and former employees who reported similar behavior by Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police Detectives ask that anyone with additional information, or anyone who believes they may have been victimized by Ferreira to contact them at 215-633-3719.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township business owner has been charged with indecent assault and harassment after multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-174214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174214","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=174214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}