{"id":204579,"date":"2026-05-28T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:16:09","slug":"lehigh-county-commissioner-facing-drug-charges-waives-preliminary-hearing-case-moves-forward-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204579\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Commissioner facing drug charges waives preliminary hearing, case moves forward | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A\u00a0Lehigh County Commissioner facing\u00a0several dozen felony drug charges is headed to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Cole Borghi waived his\u00a0preliminary hearing Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County Commissioner was originally arrested last year in a multi-state drug ring that led to 41 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Then this year, Cole Borghi faced even more legal trouble as he was charged with more than 100 felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>His next court date is on July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A\u00a0Lehigh County Commissioner facing\u00a0several dozen felony drug charges is headed to trial. Zachary Cole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,31,2892,2894,26492,16637,16640,67816,2890,67818],"class_list":["post-204579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-criminal-procedure","tag-judiciaries","tag-legal-procedure","tag-lehigh-county-commissioner","tag-public-law","tag-zachary-cole-borghi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204579","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=204579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}