{"id":180732,"date":"2026-04-30T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:15:14","slug":"police-investigate-after-false-active-shooter-report-in-palmer-twp-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180732\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate after false active shooter report in Palmer Twp. | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County say they are investigating after a false report of an active shooter earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Police were sent to a business in the 4000 block of Freemansburg Avenue Tuesday at 5:18 p.m. for an active shooter report, according to a news release from the Palmer Township Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers spoke with a man on scene who was securing the property for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Township police said officers checked the entire property and found no evidence of an active shooter or criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Officers continued to check the area and still confirmed there was no active shooter in the area, according to the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said there is no threat to the community and the investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County say they are investigating after a false report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35071,153,155,154,10137,434,2182,3628],"class_list":["post-180732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-active-shooter","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-false-report","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-police-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180732","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=180732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}