BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Three people are dead after an incident at a Bethlehem hotel.<\/p>\n
Fire and police crews responded to the Comfort Suites in Bethlehem, not far from Lehigh University, around midday Wednesday. The Northampton County coroner was also at the scene.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem police say three people were found dead in a room at the hotel. There is no danger to the public, and preliminary indications are that the incident may be drug-related, city police said.<\/p>\n
The City of Bethlehem Fire Department-Hazmat Unit initially responded with city police as a precaution and determined the scene was stable for further investigation.<\/p>\n
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“From what I’m being told, a sister of one of the individuals that was staying in a room on the second floor of the Comfort Inn went to check on his welfare,” said Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck.<\/p>\n
Houck says police were called after the sister found that her brother and two other people had apparently died in the room.<\/p>\n
“They arrived. Additional entry was made. It was confirmed we have three individuals deceased in a room,” said county coroner Zach Lysek.<\/p>\n
“It was two men and a woman. The two men we believe are in their 40s and the woman is either 29 or early 30s,” Houck said.<\/p>\n
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Preliminarily, officials believe the incident is drug-related.<\/p>\n
“If in fact we do confirm that it was 100% drug-related, it will lead us in a long way as to obviously how they died, but where they got it and things of that nature,” Houck said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Three people are dead after an incident at a Bethlehem hotel. Fire and police crews…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,805],"class_list":["post-202069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202069","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=202069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}