{"id":205938,"date":"2026-05-30T03:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205938\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:10:33","slug":"police-apprehend-suspect-in-rape-of-woman-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205938\/","title":{"rendered":"Police apprehend suspect in rape of woman in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in northwest Reading last week is now behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>City police said they have arrested Kemyoe Morgan, 31, of Reading, on rape, robbery and related charges. He was committed to the Berks County Jail on $250,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, police said, got out of his car and approached the victim as she walked in the 1200 block of Schuylkill on April 26. They said he took her behind a building, raped her, and threatened to shoot her in the head if she didn&#8217;t keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Reading sexual assault surveillance\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"619\" height=\"415\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5eab4e57aaabd.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RPD investigators provided 69 News with several surveillance images in hopes that someone could provide information that would help them make an arrest. Someone did. Police said they received an anonymous tip that identified Morgan, where he lives, and the car he drives.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, police said, then went one step further on Tuesday and identified Morgan in a photo lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County District Attorney John Adams said authorities are still looking for information in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can help, is asked to contact the Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can also be reported anonymously to <a href=\"http:\/\/crimealertberks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime Alert Berks County<\/a>, either by sending a text to 847411, starting with keyword alertberks, or by calling 877-373-9913.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Crime Alert Berks County text-a-tip\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5d8d105b2ed0b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in northwest Reading last week is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-205938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205938","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=205938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}