BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – Authorities are accusing a Bethlehem Township, Northampton County commissioner of harassing his neighbors.<\/p>\n
Michael Hudak, 67, of Bethlehem Township, is charged with stalking and harassment, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in court.<\/p>\n
Hudak and the neighbors live on Wilson Avenue and share a property line, court paperwork says.<\/p>\n
One of the neighbors said Hudak goes outside every time he and his family do and follows them wherever they go in the yard, township police said.<\/p>\n
The neighbor said Hudak watches him and his family if they stay in the front yard, according to township police.<\/p>\n
Township police say Hudak seemingly had no purpose to do this other than to harass the neighbors.<\/p>\n
The neighbor told police Hudak knew where his security cameras were and gave the finger to the cameras when he walked by them for the neighbor to see.<\/p>\n
According to township police, Hudak also made a motion with his pointer and middle fingers directing them to his own eyes and then directing those same fingers at the neighbor\u2019s camera insinuating \u201cI\u2019m watching you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Township police say Hudak drove his riding lawnmower directly toward the neighbor while staring at him. When Hudak would reach the property line, he would turn away and drive on it, all in an attempt to antagonize the neighbor, according to court paperwork.<\/p>\n
The neighbor\u2019s wife told police she was fearful of going outside when her husband was not home due to not knowing what Hudak would do, court documents said.<\/p>\n
Township police looked into incidents between Hudak and the victim and found there were 11 incidents reported to the police department since September 2022, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Township police said the incidents include Hudak harassing the neighbors by coming onto their property and yelling at them; calling in noise complaints on the neighbors where there had been no loud noises at their home; trespassing on their property after multiple trespass warnings were given; and purposefully damaging land survey stakes that were placed on the property line.<\/p>\n
On March 21, 2026, the neighbor said that while walking outside of his house, Hudak went out of his house and began following him along the property line, court paperwork says.<\/p>\n
Hudak faces a preliminary hearing June 1.<\/p>\n
69 News reached out to Hudak for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – Authorities are accusing a Bethlehem Township, Northampton County commissioner of harassing his neighbors. Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1994,63761,15918,84815,434],"class_list":["post-190272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-harassment-charges","tag-michael-hudak","tag-neighbor-dispute","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190272","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=190272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}