BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Police in Bethlehem say four people are facing charges after a replica gun was found at a city park after a fight between juveniles.<\/p>\n
It happened Monday at Yosko Park, according to a news release from the Bethlehem Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police say they received information about a potential planned fight at the park and began monitoring the area using city camera systems.<\/p>\n
Officers saw a fight involving multiple juveniles around 6:45 p.m., city police said.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Police said a boy was seen handling a backpack that appeared to contain a firearm. Police said the juvenile was later seen taking an item out of the backpack and putting it in his waistband before going towards the fight.<\/p>\n
As officers responded to the scene, the item was returned to the backpack, according to city police.<\/p>\n
When they arrived at the park, officers detained a woman who had the backpack, as part of the investigation, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
City police said a large crowd gathered in and around the park and along East 6th Street around this time, and members of the crowd began yelling at officers.<\/p>\n
Officers gave commands for the crowd to move back and took steps to maintain safety at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said the situation was brought under control. Authorities secured and searched the backpack after a warrant was issued, police said.<\/p>\n
Detectives found a replica airsoft pistol, according to city police. Authorities did not find a functional firearm, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said a second woman was also taken into custody for obstruction-related offenses during the incident and was later released pending authorities issuing a summons.<\/p>\n
According to city police, charges are pending against two adults and two juveniles after a review and consultation with the Northampton County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation is ongoing and may result in additional arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Police in Bethlehem say four people are facing charges after a replica gun was found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,746,9323,206,82775,82774],"class_list":["post-185299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-juveniles","tag-northampton-county-district-attorney","tag-police","tag-replica-pistol","tag-yosko-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185299","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=185299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}