{"id":204400,"date":"2026-05-28T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204400\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:12:09","slug":"man-accused-of-throwing-explosives-near-polling-site-in-catasauqua-due-in-court-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204400\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of throwing explosives near polling site in Catasauqua due in court | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; One of the men accused of throwing an explosive device near a primary voting site earlier this month is due in court Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Pletz and his father, Matthew Pletz, are accused of throwing the device from a pickup truck near the Salem United Church of Christ polling location in Catasauqua on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Police say when they searched their truck after the incident, they found 17 more explosive devices inside.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew was arrested that day. His son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/state-police-man-accused-of-throwing-explosive-device-near-catasauqua-polling-place-surrenders\/article_c5fb19e1-5d8d-4e66-937f-f8e358bb26ea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">surrendered days later.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Pletz is due in court for a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; One of the men accused of throwing an explosive device near a primary voting site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,8469,28,90116],"class_list":["post-204400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-catasauqua","tag-pennsylvania","tag-salem-united-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204400","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=204400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}